It offers the trip that his parents were not able to live

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Lucy Scott, his sisters and his brother have lost their parents Gilberte (age 61) and Jean-Denis Sylvain (60 years) in the occurrence of Landslides.

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Saturday, 7 October 2017 06:00

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Two decades after the accident of coach, Lucy Scott wished to complete the voyage left unfinished by his parents to The Isle-aux-Coudres, the end of the week of thanksgiving.

“We are going to live what they have not experienced. It is a pleasure for me to finish their journey, ” says the wife of St. Bernard, met at his residence in September. We do not go there to yell, but to have fun in thinking of them others, ” she insists.

Mrs. Scott and her husband need to be there to celebrate the end of this week “Christmas in autumn” (see box), to Hotel-Motel Les voitures d’eau.

“Every year, I wanted to go there. There, I do. It is a way of thinking to them… [To show] that they are not forgotten, they are always there “, expresses the woman, smiling, the throat, however, knotted by the emotion.

A shell

The Monday of thanksgiving 1997, Lucy Sylvain learned on the radio that a serious accident the coach was at the bottom of the Éboulements.

Quickly, the worst was confirmed : he was the coach in which were his parents. The two customers left in their life.

Ms. Scott admits that she was not much mourned the death of his parents. It was to be strong, argued the woman, who was the mother of four school-age children at the time of the tragedy.

“You don’t have the choice, you make a shell,” she said, trying to restrain his emotions.

“We’ve learned to live with “

The beautiful family spirit that reigns in Sylvain has helped to ” pass through “, she noted.

“It was never accepted, but one has learned to live with it,” says the one who will benefit from its stay in L’isle-aux-Coudres to go collect at the scene of the tragedy.

“I liked to go down there, raises Ms. Sylvain, who is not returned to Rock falls for more than 10 years. I said to myself : it seems to me that it is here that I talk to them, that their souls are there, “she says, noting that his parents are dead” in the most beautiful landscape in the world “.

Place of pilgrimage

Like the trip that will complement Lucy Sylvain, several Bernardine went to The Isle-aux-Coudres over the past twenty years to see the places that the victims have never been able to visit.

The island of Charlevoix has become a place of pilgrimage for these families, who make a detour by the old Éboulements, where, still today, a dozen of crosses and small monuments remind us of that dark day in 1997.

“I have met several people on the site that explain have lost their parents in this accident-there “, confirms an employee of the Hotel Cap-aux-Pierres, the institution that was to receive the group of Saint-Bernard. The latter was in position when this black day.

“I answered the phone to families who wanted to know if their parents were here… I found it very difficult,” said the man, who will never forget these hard times.

“CHRISTMAS IN AUTUMN “, THE RESIDENCE THAT WERE going TO LIVE, THE VICTIMS OF SAINT-BERNARD

Stay theme offered by some hotels in L’isle-aux-Coudres :

• Hotels decorated for the occasion

• New year’s eve to have a Christmas ” as formerly “

• Visit of Isle-aux-Coudres and its attractions

A tradition for the past thirty years. Hundreds of Quebecers will arrive by bus each year to live the experience