Edith and Charlie (most likely, far left) in this photo.
Hmm. I still have to go to the Concordia Library and look up the picture in the Montreal Star of Charlie Gagne to confirm. But he's in some many pictures of that summer, always standing beside Edith.
"Your letter just received. I am hoping HJB will call. If not I am going to ask him to come to Richmond when I come home. There's a good many things he can tell me likely. It is just as you say, sometimes the best you can do is just bear it. I am glad you told Grandmaman. She thought he was so good looking. She was asking about him at Easter. It seems as if it had been any kind of any accident, but that it would not have been so terrible. Keep the Herald if you can. I have the Star. The picture was not a very good one, but better than the usual. Write so I get it Saturday Morning. Love to Flora and self"
Maybe I'm not stretching the truth about Charlie being murdered in the Rossmore Fire. I've never understood the bit above, where Edith says that stuff about it not being an accident. Aren't fires, those started by carelessly tossed cigarettes, accidental?
Anyway, I just found another bit from the Ottawa Citizen, saying that only a few bones were found of Charlies, comprising a portion of his body. And that he was identified by a stick pin near by, that belonged to him.
Well, I had better get to the story...It starts on the day the King dies, or the next day when News hits Canada.
When I first checked out the Star to see the article years ago, I found a huge special insert about the King. I started in May, so I didn't see the first article about the fire. I needed to consult the earlier reel. Maybe it wasn't there. Much era microfiche has been lost at McGill. The Titanic Era is all gone.
