Josephine Vibert: Wedding Reception

Stefan Claeson Dept: THE wind was fierce and the waves were surging on Josephine Vibert's wedding day, 70 years ago in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, a small fishing village on Quebec's north shore, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Late in the afternoon on Nov. 2, 1942, not long before the wedding reception, Vibert and most of the village stopped to watch a U.S. army seaplane taxi from the harbour and pAUL CHIASSON / THE CANADIAN PRESS Anthropologist Stefan Claeson examines aviator glasses recovered from wreck. In 1942, the village became the site of an emergency airstrip on the U.S. military's so-called "Crimson Route," a strategic air corridor to Europe through Maine and Newfoundland. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.