Canadian death toll in Haiti rises to 58

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Canadian death toll in Haiti rises to 6

Last Updated: Saturday, January 16, 2010 | 1:17 AM ET

CBC News

Two more Canadian deaths have been confirmed in the aftermath of the earthquake that ravaged Haiti, bringing the death toll to six, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement.

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Guillaume Siemienski, an employee of the Canadian International

Development Agency, and H?l?ne Rivard, a consultant with CIDA, both died in the earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday, Harper said in a statement issued early Saturday.

Siemienski was on assignment with the United Nations, while Rivard had been a consultant with CIDA for more than 20 years. It was not immediately clear where they were from in Canada.

Harper expressed sadness at news of their deaths.

"Their deaths are a reminder of the sacrifice Canadian men and women like Mr. Siemienski and Ms. Rivard are willing to make in order to bring Canadian generosity and aid to Haiti and the world," he said.

Four other Canadians were killed when the 7.0-magnitude quake struck: RCMP Sgt. Mark Gallagher of Nova Scotia, nurse Yvonne Martin of Elmira, Ont., and Montreal university professor Georges Anglade and his wife Mireille.

Thirteen Canadians are listed as injured and more than 1,400 Canadians in Haiti remain unaccounted for.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/01/16/haiti-dead016.html

 

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Canadian death toll in Haiti rises to 8

Last Updated: Saturday, January 16, 2010 | 5:32 PM ET

CBC News

Two more Canadians were confirmed dead Saturday as a result of the Haitian earthquake, raising this country's death toll in the disaster to eight.

Supt. Doug Coates's body was found in the rubble of the United Nations headquarters in the capital Port-au-Prince, RCMP Commissioner Bill Elliott said Saturday in Ottawa.

Coates, the senior Mountie in Haiti, was mentoring police officers. RCMP Sgt. Mark Gallagher of Nova Scotia was found dead earlier this week. Elliott called both men heroes.

Denis Bellavance, a professor from Drummondville, Que., who was teaching at the university in Port-au-Prince, also died in the quake, his family said Saturday.

Other Canadian victims include: Montreal native Guillaume Siemienski, an employee working with the Canadian International Development Agency; Hélène Rivard, a CIDA consultant; nurse Yvonne Martin of Elmira, Ont.; and Montreal university professor Georges Anglade and his wife, Mireille, who were confirmed dead earlier in the week.

The number of Canadians still unaccounted for in Haiti has dropped to 1,362, down from 1,415, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Saturday.

The minister said a total of 781 Canadians have been located and embassy staff are continuing to provide assistance to get many of them out of the quake zone and returned to Canada.

Supt. Doug CoatesCanadians. (JenCor Entertainment)

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Profiles of Canadians killed in Haiti's earthquake
Posted: January 17, 2010, 4:52 PM by Scott Maniquet

By Kenyon Wallace, National Post

They came from every walk of life and died doing the things they loved.

Over the weekend, eight more Canadians were added to the list of those killed in the Haiti earthquake, bringing the total number of confirmed Canadian deaths to 12 so far.

Their stories are inspirational, heartbreaking, and, unfortunately, unlikely to the be the last that will emerge over the coming days. While 1,122 Canadians have been located since Tuesday?s deadly quake, more than 1,150 remain missing.


Read more on their profiles at:
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Canadian death toll in Haiti climbs to 14

Updated: Mon Jan. 18 2010 20:01:14

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Two Quebec women are the latest confirmed Canadian deaths in Haiti, bringing the total number to 14, with hundreds still missing.

Jean-Paul Marin, a Quebec garage owner, buried his wife, Louise, in the garden of their collapsed home in Grand Goave -- the same town where 17 B.C. students were stranded after the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Another grave was dug in Grand Goave for Roseline Plouffe. She was buried by her common-law spouse, Jean-Louis Meloche, a retired Air Canada employee.

The coastal town has several residents from Quebec, and is nicknamed the Cite des canadiens.

Earlier Monday, Ottawa confirmed the deaths of three more Canadians in the 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

A further 859 Canadians remain missing, while 1,433 have been located.

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Family confirms death of Quebecer in Haiti

Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, January 19, 2010

QUEBEC - The family of Canadian Alexandra Duguay confirmed Tuesday that her body has been found In Haiti. Duguay, 31, was a spokeswoman for the United Nations and was on the ground floor of the UN headquarters building when it collapsed.


"We still had hope yesterday that we would find her alive, but her body was found around midnight", her mother Marie-Dominique Bedard told Canwest News Service Tuesday.

She said that according to rescue personnel her daughter likely died instantly.

Canadian Alexandra Duguay as seen in a file photo in May 2009. Her family confirmed Tuesday that her body has been found In Haiti. Duguay, 31, was a spokeswoman for the United Nations and was on the ground floor of the UN headquarters building when it collapsed.

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Mounties killed in Haiti to be repatriated at CFB Trenton later this week There is not a day and a time set for this arrival yet due to the congestion at Port-au-Prince airport

Posted By QMI Agency Staff

Updated 6 hours ago

The bodies of two RCMP officers killed when the earthquake struck Haiti are expected to be back on Canadian soil later this week .

Annie Morin, public officers at CFB Trenton, said the National Defence plan to repatriate Sgt. Mark Gallagher and Supt. Doug Coates on either Friday or Saturday.

"He will be brought to CFB Trenton in the same fashion fallen soldiers are," said Morin.

Military officials are working with the RCMP on the details but Morin said the Mounties are taking the lead on how it is handled.

"There will be police on hand and I suspect he will be transported to Toronto along the Highway of Heroes," said Morin.

It isn't clear yet if the plane will carry other Canadians who died there.

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Number of Canadians killed in Haiti rises to 16; another 306 still missing

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OTTAWA ? Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the longterm challenge facing Canadian and other international relief efforts in earthquake-stricken Haiti is nothing less than "the rescue of a shattered society."

Harper told the Conservative caucus today Canadians have been "profoundly moved" by the suffering in Haiti and they have asked his government to do everything in its power to help.

He says Canada's relief effort is unprecedented - it is led by the Canadian Forces, co-ordinated by Canada's diplomats, and involves a "small army" of emergency-aid workers.

Harper says even greater and more challenging than the immediate response is rebuilding Haiti in the months and years to come and to "transform its unimaginable grief into a sustained hope for the future."

He promised Canada will remain steadfast in its commitment to assist its Haitian neighbours and to "help them find their way to hope."

Estimates of the total number of dead in the magnitude-7.3 quake now number 200,000 or more.

The number of confirmed Canadian deaths is at 16. There are 306 Canadians still missing in Haiti, and 1,892 have been located.

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Newfoundland man among 16 Canadian fatalities in Haiti

Katherine Hudson, The Western Star: Friday, January 22, 2010 9:49 AM
James W. Coates, 37, worked for the United Nations in Port-au-Prince at its headquarters as an information management assistant. He was a member of UN's international staff. The Deer Lake man missing in earthquake-ravaged Haiti was found dead Wednesday.
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DEER LAKE, N.L. ? A man from Deer Lake, N.L. is among the 16 Canadian deaths that have been confirmed in the wake of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti last week.

The body of James W. Coates, 37, who worked for the United Nations in Port-au-Prince at its headquarters as an information management assistant, was found Wednesday.

Foreign Affairs confirmed the number of Canadian deaths Friday.

"I'm really thankful that they found (his body) . . . and the family can put some kind of closure on this," Coates's step-sister Paula Dinney told The Western Star.

Deer Lake, in western Newfoundland, is about 50 kilomentres east of Corner Brook.

Dinney said no details had been disclosed as to where and when Coates was found, but said the family would learn more on Friday.

"I kept praying 'if he's not alive, at least let them recover the body to help the family.' Not knowing can be worse than losing him . . . He was home for Christmas, so thank God for that," she said.

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RCMP officers killed in Haiti begin final journey home on 'Highway of Heroes'

January 22, 2010 |Jonathan Montpetit And Ciara Byrne, THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadian members of the United Nations force in Haiti carry caskets of two RCMP officers killed in last week's earthquake during a ramp ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday January 22, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Two RCMP officers killed in Haiti's devastating earthquake began the final journey home Friday with the words "Highway of Heroes" marking the way, crudely scrawled on cardboard in Haiti and emblazoned on massive road signs in Canada.

A procession of hearses carried the remains of Mark Gallagher and Supt. Doug Coates along the stretch of Ontario pavement renamed in honour of soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

In Port-au-Prince, Haiti the cardboard sign, likely made by a Canadian soldier familiar with the blue billboards marking the "Highway of Heroes," showed the way as a truck ferried the steel caskets to a waiting military transport.

Gallagher and Coates were among 17 Canadians confirmed by the Department of Foreign Affairs to have died in the massive magnitude-7 tremor, which toppled buildings, ripped up roads and claimed upwards of 200,000 lives.

Mounties in their red serge dress uniforms saluted as the caskets were taken from military transport plane to hearses by RCMP pallbearers at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario. More than 100 people gathered outside the base, some in RCMP uniforms, to pay their respects and watch the repatriation ceremony in the biting cold from behind a chain-link fence.

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More Canadian deaths confirmed as Ottawa increases Haiti funding

Canwest News Service: Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:02 AM

OTTAWA ? Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Saturday applauded the generosity of Canadians for making $67 million in donations so far to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

The federal government had initially committed to matching up to $50 million in individual donations to aid efforts for the ravaged Caribbean island, but that cap will now be lifted, Harper said at the news conference.

?In fact, it is necessary to raise this cap. Really, giving has exceeded our wildest expectations and we will continue to match pledges dollar for dollar,? he said.

The officially confirmed number of Canadians killed in the Jan. 12 earthquake, the deadliest to hit Port-au-Prince in nearly two centuries, increased to 17 on Saturday.

?Sadly, we expect to have more confirmation of (Canadian) deaths,? Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said.

There are 236 Canadians still unaccounted for in Haiti. A total of 1,139 people have been found by Canadian authorities, with 190 still living at the Canadian Embassy in Haiti?s capital of Port-au-Prince.

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Canada working to bring Haiti dead home

OTTAWA ? A total of 19 Canadians are confirmed dead in Haiti?s earthquake and the federal government is working to repatriate the remains.

At the same time, Air Canada airlifted 24 Haitian orphans adopted by Canadian families.

?Since the Government of Haiti officially declared that the search and rescue phase was over yesterday, our focus now is on the repatriation of the remains of Canadian victims of the earthquake,? said Canada?s foreign minister Lawrence Cannon on Sunday.

Some of the bodies have already arrived in Canada but remains of several victims have not been transported home.

??We are working as quickly as possible through a number of complex logistical issues, including those related to identification and proper documentation of individuals,? he said. ??Our prayers and thoughts are with the families and friends of the deceased.?

?According to the latest consular figures, the number of Canadian fatalities has now reached 19. I extend my deepest condolences to the families and friends of those affected. My deepest condolences are with the family of [former MP Serge] Marcil,? he said.

Marcil?s body was found in the rubble of Hotel Montana. He had earlier been reported to be alive but authorities found his body just two hours before his frantic wife reached Haiti on Friday.

?A total of 213 Canadians are unaccounted for in the affected area, and 1,948 Canadians have been located,? said Cannon, leading him to warn that Canada can expect reports of more deaths.

http://www.vancouverite.com/2010/01/24/canada-working-to-bring-haiti-dead-home/

 

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A look at the latest news and numbers as Canada helps out in Haiti

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A look at some of the latest news and numbers emerging from the Canadian and international relief effort in Haiti:

Representatives from more than 12 countries, eight international bodies and six non-governmental organizations gather in Montreal to discuss rebuilding strategy for Haiti

Canadians confirmed dead: 20

Canadians missing: 181

Canadians located: 1,945, up from 1,937 Friday afternoon

Canadians believed to be in Haiti: more than 6,000

Total death toll in Haiti: Roughly 200,000, estimate by the European Union, quoting Haitian officials.

Number of homeless in Haiti: 2 million, European Commission estimate.

Canadians evacuated: 2,424 people transported on 27 flights.

Calls to DFAIT's emergency ops centre: 32,400, up from 30,500 Friday afternoon

Canadian troops currently in Haiti: 950 soldiers, sailors, and air crew on the ground or off the coast. That figure is expected to double within two weeks.

Canadian military resources: Two ships, HMCS Halifax and HMCS Athabaskan; one Sea King helicopter; six Griffon helicopters; one C-17 heavy-lift aircraft; one C-130 cargo aircraft; hundreds of vehicles and a military field hospital.


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A look at the latest news and numbers as Canada helps out in Haiti

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Canadians confirmed dead: 21

Canadians missing: 143

Canadians located: 2,020, up from 1,939 Wednesday afternoon

Canadians originally believed to be in Haiti: more than 6,000

Total death toll in Haiti: Roughly 200,000, estimate by the European Union, quoting Haitian officials.

Number of homeless in Haiti: 1 million, European Commission estimate.

Number of people living in makeshift camps: between 700,000 and 800,000.

Canadians evacuated: 2,931 people transported on 32 flights.

Calls to DFAIT's emergency operations centre: 35,000, up from 34,700 Wednesday afternoon


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Thousands pay tribute to N.B. RCMP officer killed in Haiti

Canwest News Service
January 28, 2010 2:04 PM



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RCMP Sgt. Mark Gallagher of Halifax, seen in this undated photo.
Photograph by: Handout, RCMP

DIEPPE, N.B. ? Hundreds of mourners packed a church in Woodstock, N.B., on Thursday to bid farewell to RCMP officer Sgt. Mark Gallagher who died in the Haitian earthquake.

Thousands more people watched the service for the Mountie at St. Gertrude's Roman Catholic Church on a large screen set up in a community centre in Woodstock and at another church in Moncton.

An RCMP honour guard carried the flag-draped casket into the church.

"It was a sombre, but uplifting service," said Woodstock Mayor Arthur Slipp. "It certainly celebrated the life of Sgt. Gallagher. He's certainly had quite an impact on this community."

There was lots of emotion at the service, Slipp said, but he felt the ceremony paid tribute to a man who touched the lives of many people.

"It was the largest funeral I can remember in the town of Woodstock," he said, adding that several politicians came out to pay their respects.

Gallagher worked for many years in Moncton as a police officer, and volunteered as a coach and mentor to young people.

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Three funerals for Canadians killed in Haiti take place in Quebec today

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By: THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL - The funerals of three Canadians killed in the earthquake that devastated Haiti earlier this month will take place today.

A funeral for Georges and Mireille Anglade will take place in Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica this morning.

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 be laid to rest in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., this afternoon.

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

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Mireille and Georges Anglade, both 65, of Montreal were killed in the earthquake that struck Haiti Jan. 12. Georges Anglade was a former Haitian cabinet minister and served as an advisor to Haitian president Rene Preval.http://www.thestar.com/news/world/haiti/article/750630--montreal-couple-found-dead-in-haiti-rubble


The Canadian Press Photo: Serge Marcil. THE CANADIAN PRESS/CP http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100123/national/haiti_earthquake_cda_marcil

 

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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.

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Haiti earthquake - latest facts and figures at a glance

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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

Fri Feb 12, 10:55 AM

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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.

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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.

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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 1½ 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+...colleague+died+Haiti+quake/2447684/story.html

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

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