Canadian death toll in Haiti rises to 58

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Funerals for five Canadians killed in Haiti were held across Quebec





January 30, 2010 2:20 p.m.

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Family, friends and colleagues bid goodbye to Georges and Mireille Anglade in a ceremony at Montreal's Notre Dame Basilica.

"Papa made us think big," his daughter Dominique told the congregation, recalling her father's encouragement when his children expressed and defended their opinions.

Pascale, the couple's second daughter, said their parents also taught them the importance of strong relationships.

"My parents had opposite personalities but made a perfect couple," she said.

The family was also mourning the loss of their cousin and uncle in the disaster, along with countless others.

"This tragedy took four people from us," Dominique said.

"But there were 150,000 people taken in the earthquake - 150,000 other tragedies."

Georges was a geography professor and author who was active in Haitian politics and helped found the Universite du Quebec a Montreal in 1969.

His wife was an economist who worked with the United Nations in Haiti and was actively involved in women's rights.

Former Liberal MP Serge Marcil will also be laid to rest in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., on Saturday.

His body was recovered last week in the rubble of the Hotel Montana in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.

Two other victims of the earthquake in Haiti will be mourned Saturday in Quebec. A funeral will be held for UN worker Alexandra Duguay in Quebec City and a memorial mass will take place for humanitarian worker Camil Perron in St-Felicien.

Foreign Affairs said Saturday a total of 25 Canadians were confirmed dead from Haiti's earthquake.

http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/canada/article/438115--funerals-for-five-canadians-killed-in-haiti-were-held-across-quebec

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Haiti earthquake - latest facts and figures at a glance

(CP) ? 20 hours ago

A glance at some facts and figures about the Haiti earthquake and Canadians:

Canadians confirmed dead: 26

Canadians missing: 98

Canadians located: 1,967, unchanged from Monday

Canadians believed in Haiti when disastrous quake struck: more than 6,000.

Canadians evacuated: 3,397 transported on 38 flights.

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Canadian death toll in Haiti reaches 29

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OTTAWA (AFP) - The number of Canadians killed in Haiti's devastating quake on January 12 has risen to 29, the Canadian government said Friday.

Another 63 Canadian nationals are still unaccounted for in Haiti, according to the latest update on the foreign affairs department's website.

"Since February 3, we have succeeded in locating more than 30 Canadians alive and well who were previously unaccounted for," Foreign Affairs Department spokeswoman Dana Cryderman told AFP.

"Our efforts to locate Canadians continue, and we hope to determine the status of the 63 Canadians who are still unaccounted for."

Canada has located more than 6,000 of its citizens in Haiti and evacuated 4,100 of them on flights returning from delivering aid and medical supplies to the Caribbean nation.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100212/canada/haiti_quake_canada_toll

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Quebec City engineer latest confirmed death in Haiti

The remains of Tran Trieu Quan, a Quebec City engineer, were found in the rubble of last month's quake in Port-au-Prince, his family said in a statement Saturday.


Tu Thanh Ha

Published on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 2:32PM EST Last updated on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 3:01PM EST

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Tran Trieu Quan was not a household name but when the 57-year-old Quebec City man went missing in the wake of the earthquake that hit Haiti last month, messages of support poured in from around the world.

His remains have been identified in the rubble of a Port-au-Prince hotel, his family announced in a statement Saturday morning, the most recent confirmation of the death of a Canadian in Haiti.

An engineer and entrepreneur, Mr. Quan was also a Taekwondo grand master and president of one of the sport's ruling bodies.

His disappearance in Haiti had triggered expressions of concerns and sympathy from the Philippines to Italy to Argentina, with thousands of practitioners signing up on a Facebook support page.

?What happened is a great tragedy. He was appreciated by a lot of people,? said Roy Rolstad, a Taekwondo instructor in Oslo, Norway.

?He was a very wise, wise man, with lots of knowledge, not only about Taekwondo but about life,? said Norberto Taveras, an instructor in the Dominican Republic.In a sad irony, Mr. Quan was in Port-au-Prince on a World Bank contract to improve the country's building standards.
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Mr. Quan is survived by his wife Nguyen Thi My and two daughters and a son, Joliette, Cecilia and Nicolas, all of them Taekwondo black belts.

Mr. Quan's remains will be returned to Canada Sunday, on Lunar New Year, traditionally the most festive time for people of Vietnamese ancestry. A private funeral will be held Feb. 20, but a public service is expected in March.

Much more at:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec-city-engineer-latest-confirmed-death-in-haiti/article1467495/

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Ontario nurse recalls moment colleague died in Haiti quake
‘Sound will forever be with me’

By Kenyon Wallace, National Post
January 16, 2010

One of the last images Marilyn Raymer has of her friend Yvonne Martin is of the nurse laughing and chatting to fellow guests.

Ms. Raymer and Ms. Martin, both from Elmira, had arrived in Port-au-Prince 1&#189; hours earlier and were decompressing by the pool of their guest house just before 5 p.m. They were part of a contingent of six nurses and one doctor from the Kitchener-based Evangelical Missionary Church, who were visiting Haiti to provide medical care in remote areas.

Because she would be working the next day, Ms. Martin decided to take advantage of the balmy tropical night and go for a swim. “Yvonne asks me what time it is and I say it’s about quarter to five, and she says, ‘Oh, I’d better get out and get upstairs to get dressed for supper,’ ” Ms. Raymer recalled on Friday from her home after returning to Canada on board a Canadian Forces aircraft.

Seconds after Ms. Martin went back inside the two-storey building, the deadliest earthquake in Haiti’s history struck.

“We’re just sitting there on what were like patio stones cemented together. It was like the ground heaved and swelled and heaved and swelled and threw us around. It was like the pool was throwing water at us,” Ms. Raymer said. “I don’t have a sense of the noise being related to the building collapse, but I had the feeling that the noise started just as the very first shock hit. It was just an overwhelming ... sense of sound and convulsive movement, over which you have no control. It’s like you’re a rag doll in this whole thing.”

She said she thinks she remembers falling back into her chair, which would explain why she suffered no bruises. When the initial quake subsided about a minute later, she looked over to the guest house, not three metres away.

“It was pancaked. There’s no second floor, just a sort of roof all buckled and underneath just debris,” she said. “I didn’t really have a sense of it coming down. It just disappeared in this violent, convulsive activity.”
After a quick head count and coming up one short, she realized her long-time friend and colleague was missing, likely trapped under the rubble.

The group’s efforts to find Ms. Martin were hampered by aftershocks that made it dangerous to approach the destroyed building and the outer walls of the compound, which were leaning precariously. “That night it was dreadful, because you think, ‘Should I be out there pawing with my hands trying to find Yvonne?’ But you can’t imagine how overwhelming it was with this slab of cement on top,” Ms. Raymer said.

Pulling out mattresses from a storage shed and opening up some of the 12 suitcases of medical supplies brought with them from Canada, the group spent the night in the inner courtyard, treating the injured and searching for their friend. No one slept. At about 3 a.m., Ms. Raymer walked over to where two women with head injuries were lying after having crawled out from the guest house.

“It was quite bright, which surprises me because there wasn’t a light in Port-au-Prince … but it wasn’t pitch black.”

Then, above the din of dogs barking, roosters crowing and trucks rumbling by the gate came the sound of singing. One of the injured women raised her hands in the air and joined in the hymn Count Your Blessings. “That’s the sound that will forever be with me,” she said. “The Haitians are so resilient. They don’t know if their families are dead or alive. They don’t know if their house is still standing. They don’t know anything. They just know they’ve been hit on the head with some pretty heavy cement, but they are alive and they are so grateful.”

With the morning came the news the group was dreading. A U.S. doctor and her husband had found Ms. Martin’s body near a wall where her second-floor bedroom had been. “They think she died instantly.”

By Wednesday morning, Ms. Raymer and her group found themselves on the lawn of the Canadian embassy, having been driven there by the Americans.

More at:

http://www.canada.com/news/Ontario+nurse+recalls+moment+colleague+died+Haiti+quake/2447684/story.html

Nurse Yvonne Martin, left, died during Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti. (Waterloo Mennonite Brethren Church)

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/01/13/montreal-haiti-canada-support.html#ixzz0hYMYsecz

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CTV.ca News Staff
Date: Mon. Feb. 22 2010 4:50 PM ET

Thirty-four Canadians have been declared dead in the Haiti earthquake, and another 50 remain missing, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Monday.

Cannon said the missing may soon have to be officially acknowledged as dead considering the time that has passed since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

"It's getting to a tipping point where we will have to be able to make that determination," he said.

RCMP specialists are working to identify bodies as more are still being found in the rubble.

Canada has stopped running evacuation flights out of the quake-stricken country, after at least 4,618 people were flown to Canada on 48 flights.

Canadians in Haiti are now being asked to book flights on commercial airlines to return home, since the Port-au-Prince airport has reopened to the public.

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Father's remains found in hotel's rubble


By Sue Montgomery, The Gazette March 2, 2010



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Roger Gosselin, 78, was buried under the rubble of Haiti's Montana Hotel, which was destroyed during the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Photograph by: courtesy, Gosselin family


MONTREAL - After 48 agonizing days, the Gosselin family finally received the news they were both dreading and hoping for.

The remains of their beloved father, Roger, have been found in the rubble of the five-star Montana Hotel in Haiti and will be brought home in the coming days to be laid to rest in his hometown of Charlemagne.

For the last seven weeks, his three grown children, France, Beno?t and Daniel, his former wife of 30 years, Yolande Roch, and his companion Sylvie Leroux, have bounced between the depths of despair of loss to the highs that maybe the 78-year-old would be one of the few miraculously pulled alive from the ruins.

On Saturday at noon, France received a call from Pierre V?zina, an RCMP officer on site of the aftermath of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, saying they had found Gosselin?s flight ticket and vaccination book. The stench, he told them, suggested a body was also there.

Saturday at 4 p.m. he called again to say they?d found a body and V?zina asked about the colour of Gosselin?s hair and state of his teeth. Sunday passed in excruciating silence. France?s emails to V?zina were answered with no news.

Finally, an RCMP officer knocked on her door at lunchtime on Monday to deliver the verdict ? the body they found was her father?s. Five grandchildren and a great-granddaughter, as well as countless relatives, colleagues and friends, would soon be in shock and tears as the news rippled through the lives Gosselin touched.

?Even if we were waiting for this, we could never really be ready for it,? Beno?t said in an interview yesterday.

?And there is rage inside us,? said France. ?There?s been this huge lack of information (from the Canadian government).

?They couldn?t give us any news, answer our questions or even understand what we were going through and they left us in this black hole of information right to the end.?

Although a date has not yet been set, a funeral for Gosselin, a retired Universit? de Montr?al professor and health-care management consultant who was a leader in his field and had travelled the world, will be held at ?glise de Charlemagne.

Meanwhile, the family of Alexandre Bitton, the 36-year-old Pierrefonds resident who flew to Port au Prince that fateful day on the same Air Canada flight as Gosselin, are hanging onto the little news they received yesterday. Three more people have been found, as well as Bitton?s laptop case containing his business cards and his suitcase full of clothes.

?We?re hoping and we?re not hoping,? said his mother, Jocelyne. ?Of course we?re hoping he?s alive, but we need to end this. It?s been hell.?

Yesterday, Jocelyne Bitton, who has been frustrated over the lack of communication with the federal government, finally received a response from Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon to the email she sent him last month, begging for information about the search for Canadians at the hotel. Cannon expressed sympathy and encouraged her to stay in touch with Monique l?Heureux, the consular affairs person in charge of the file.

Bitton is the last Canadian buried under the rubble at the hotel


Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/Father+remains+found+hotel+rubble/2633869/story.html#ixzz0hYEeeU3u

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Body of Missing Montreal Jew Found

By: ELAD BENARI
Published: March 4th 2010


Alexandre Bitton
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Following a month-long effort by ZAKA, the body of Alexandre Bitton has likely been found in Haiti. ZAKA?s spokesperson told Walla News on Thursday that a body had been found in the Hotel Montana in Haiti, and in its pocket was Bitton?s passport. INN reported that the body has been forwarded to a UN facility in order to identify it as Bitton?s.

Bitton, a Jew from Montreal and father to a young boy, had arrived in Haiti on the day of the earthquake and was doing business with a local businessman. At the time of the earthquake he was in the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince. His business partner was the last one to have seen him. They met at the hotel lobby, where Bitton had problems with the check-in process. His business partner helped him out and then they separated ways. Ten minutes later the earthquake struck and the five-story, 140-room hotel collapsed. Bitton?s business partner, who survived the earthquake, did not know what room he was in.

ZAKA had announced a month ago that they would not give up on the search for Bitton and, in conjunction with the US delegation, worked in order to rescue bodies from the rubbles of the Hotel Montana. Every body that had been found by the US delegation was forwarded to ZAKA for identification.

During its stay in Haiti, the Israeli delegation made every effort to locate Bitton. A rescue team dug a tunnel underneath the hotel rubble in order to locate the hotel computer and find which room Bitton had stayed in. Unfortunately this effort had not been successful as the search was stopped due to concerns for the team?s safety.

ZAKA told INN following the finding of the body that it ?saw great importance in this holy mission. ZAKA?s mission is to make every effort, even if it means travelling to the end of the world, in order to give a Jew a proper burial.?

http://www.shalomlife.com/eng/7302/Body_of_Missing_Montreal_Jew_Found/

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Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada international.gc.


March 5, 2010 (4 p.m. ET) Next update: March 8

? 1,901 Canadians located

? 30 Canadians unaccounted for

? 4,620 people evacuated on 49 flights

? 44 confirmed deaths

List of definitions

http://www.international.gc.ca/humanitarian-humanitaire/earthquake_seisme_haiti.aspx

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