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“And it still haunts me today, 67 years later,” he says. “I can still see and hear the panic, from the capsized boat and on the shore from those witnessing it all.”
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Rosenthal is referring to the boating tragedy of July 13, 1954, on Lake of Two Mountains off Île-Bizard. Twelve children from the Negro Community Centre day camp, ages six to 11, drowned. At the time, Rosenthal was a junior counsellor at the YMHA day camp, whose campers were on the nearby beach when the fatal events transpired.