Quebec Town: LAC-MEGANTIC

LAC-MEGANTIC: LAC-MEGANTIC, - Like so many kids raised near railroads, youngsters in this Quebec town would count train wagons as they rumbled by and got a kick out watching the wheels flatten pennies they had placed on the tracks. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "We were never scared of the train." Firefighters spray foam on the train crash site in Lac-Megantic, Que., Sunday, July 14, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot "It was a ritual," said Diane Clusiault, who grew up by a section of Lac-Megantic's railway, just a couple of hundred metres from the heart of her town. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.