More than 400 residents of Lac-Mégantic, Que., attended the first screening of a new limited series about the town's rail disaster nearly 10 years ago. Some of them weren't ready for it.
Yvette Cellard was one of the residents who watched the first screening of a new limited series on the Lac-Mégantic rail explosion on Monday evening.
That's when a train carrying crude oil crashed into the centre of Lac-Mégantic, Que. killing 47 people in what went down as one of the worst rail disasters in Canadian history. Like many other residents of Lac-Mégantic and surrounding towns, Cellard says she had mixed feelings about the series at first, which has received a significant amount of pushback from residents since its announcement.Series was 'big issue in town'"Something told me not to go and other things told me I had to go. So I just followed my instinct … I wanted to know if I was able to look at this," said Cellard.
"It's not about making the best movie in town or getting an award, it's about how simple people, working people cope with something that's bigger than them. We are resilient and that's what the whole series is going to be about." Sitting in her home located on the border of Frontenac and Lac-Mégantic, she recalled losing her grandson, Frédéric Boutin, in the tragedy in 2013.
Her grandson was sleeping in his apartment when the explosion happened. She says he was a "prisoner" in his apartment, trying to get out through the fire escape — his body being discovered outside the building in the alley.
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