{"id":26709,"date":"2014-07-06T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26709"},"modified":"2014-07-06T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:30:23","slug":"lac-megantic-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/06\/lac-megantic-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Lac-M\u00e9gantic, then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em> has a one-year retrospective photo essay on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/multimedia\/photo\/photo-essay-revisiting-lac-megantic-one-year-later\/\" target=\"_blank\">derailment and explosion in Lac-M\u00e9gantic<\/a>, one year ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last July, a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed in downtown Lac-M\u00e9gantic, Que., and exploded, horrifically. The disaster killed 47 people and left a pile of twisted, burning metal in what remained of the town\u2019s core. Martin Patriquin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/?p=576323\" target=\"_blank\">revisited the tragedy<\/a> a year on and spoke to townspeople who are struggling to recover. \u201cWe aren\u2019t enraged. Only terrorists get enraged. We are builders,\u201d said Raymond Lafontaine, who lost three family members in the disaster and runs a local construction business.<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Will Lew went to Lac-M\u00e9gantic, a town slowly recovering from the aftermath of Canada\u2019s deadliest rail disaster. His photos revisiting scenes of devastation capture a gradual return to normalcy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The photos are split, so you can move the slider to see the before-and-after images.<\/p>\n<p>The front page of <em>Le Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/em>, courtesy of <em>Newseum<\/em>, with one of the most dramatic photos of the tragedy:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newseum.org\/todaysfrontpages\/hr.asp?fpVname=CAN_JM&amp;ref_pge=gal&amp;b_pge=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Front-page-of-Le-Journal-de-Montreal-2013-07-07.jpg\" alt=\"Front page of Le Journal de Montr\u00e9al, 2013-07-07\" width=\"700\" height=\"859\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Front-page-of-Le-Journal-de-Montreal-2013-07-07.jpg 700w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Front-page-of-Le-Journal-de-Montreal-2013-07-07-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Front-page-of-Le-Journal-de-Montreal-2013-07-07-480x589.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maclean&#8217;s has a one-year retrospective photo essay on the derailment and explosion in Lac-M\u00e9gantic, one year ago. Last July, a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed in downtown Lac-M\u00e9gantic, Que., and exploded, horrifically. The disaster killed 47 people and left a pile of twisted, burning metal in what remained of the town\u2019s core. Martin Patriquin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,237],"tags":[923,113],"class_list":["post-26709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-railways","tag-derailment","tag-quebec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6WN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26710,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26709\/revisions\/26710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}