Hot off the Press: the Truth about the Titanic Sinking (1912)

 

A 1908 pic from Technical World magazine showing where the Titanic and the Olympic were to be built.

 

I found this interesting article written about the Sinking of the Titanic in a magazine published in the US in June 1912 that tells the story from a working man’s perspective – and an engineer’s perspective. Here’s the first part of  Loss of the Steamship Titanic: the World’s Greatest Achievement in Shipbuilding. From Locomotive Firemen and Engineman’s Magazine. (Amazing what you can find on eBay.)

 

My ebook, Threshold Girl is about a college girl in 1911/12,is based on real letters, and contains information about the Titanic, from the point of view of the woman on the street, so to speak.

 

The sinking of the Whitestar Steamship Titanic, at about 2 o’clock on the morning of April 15, 1912, is the greatest disaster in maritime history, one thousand,six hundred and thirty five lives being lost, out of a total of 2, 340 on board, while many of the 705 who were rescued suffered hardships and terror, that will doubtless impair their health and mar their future happiness.

 

The Titanic was on her Maiden Voyage, she was the biggest finest ship afloat and her reign as Queen of the Seas was only of five days duration. On April 10th she sailed from Liverpool and on the following Sunday night, give days later, collided with an iceberg and sank, about 150 miles south of Cape Race Newfoundland and about 1100 miles east of New York.

 

Nothwithstanding the presence of much floating ice, and repeated warnings from other vessels that the icebergs were in the vicinity, she was steaming ahead when the collision occurred at a speed of about 21 and a half knots, about 24 and 3/4 statute miles and hour.

 

Some few minutes after 11 o’clock, accounts vary as to the exact time, a veritable mountain of ice was seen ahead, against which despite all efforts the ship crashed, a submerged portion ripping open the vessel’s bottom  on the starboard side.

 

The shock was not violent, but the officer’s soon discovered that the damage was such that it was just a question of how long the leaking bulkhead and pierced air compartments would keep the vessel afloat. (to be continued)

 

 

 

The Titanic and Olympic being built. Pic from Technical World Magazine.

 

This article is to be Continued next post.

 

A Wave of Media Events to Commemorate the Titanic – and Threshold Girl

My Kindle (already out-dated) and Edith Nicholson’s (1884-1977)Copy of Middlemarch, published on the year of her birth.

Right now I’m reading a book called The Art of Fielding on my kindle, and Fall on Your Knees, with a tangible book and I’ve got this 1884 copy of Middlemarch I’ve been meaning to read, as it was Edith Nicholson’s copy, but the print is SO SMALL. Alas, I don’t have an iPad, new version or the latest or a smart phone. Just a dumb phone.

Anyway, March Break in Quebec is over and school librarians everywhere are likely putting out their “Titanic” displays to take advantage of a GIANT teachable moment coming up soon, the 100th anniverary of that unsinkable ship’s sinking.

There’s going to be a giant National Geographic Special on TV hosted by James Cameron.  He’s going to gather a group of experts in a unprecedented investigation of the iconic event.  Someone is going to LIVE TWEET the entire voyage of the Titanic.  ”@TitanicRealTime will chart the Titanic’s epic journey through ‘live’ tweets, broadcasting as though they’re coming directly from those involved.” .and the BBC is doing a number of specials.

BBC Radio Four is producing a number of programs in commemoration. According to their press release: “The station will mark the anniversary with a five-part series of programmes, beginning with the Ship of Dreams presented by Jeanette Winterson. It celebrates the Titanic as a vessel of dreams and realities and as a symbol of man’s power and fallibility.”

I love BBC Radio Four. NO ONE does history better. NO ONE. And any Canadian can access it through the Internet.

And the Royal Canadian mint is putting out a commemorative coin.  Woo Woo. And then there’s my FREE ebook Threshold Girl

Or.I must wonder,  are librarians going to bother with ‘cheesy’  low-tech book displays with all this other glitzy stuff going on?

I’ve been out the the ‘education’ field for while, my kids are now graduated university.

I don’t know if there are any librarians in the schools anymore, or if they put out displays.

If Threshold Girlwere published in traditional print form, Librarians in Quebec and Canada would likely be putting it front and center in any Titanic Display. That’s because the book  is about a Canadian girl in the Titanic Era. And it is based on real letters and it contains Canadian references to the Titanic tragedy.

But it’s in ebook form. (Free though.) That didn’t stop the library at OISE (Ontario Institute for the Study of Education) at the University of Toronto from printing out a copy and putting it on their shelves. And Radcliffe/Harvard included a copy in their digital collection.

Yes, I don’t know where libraries in Quebec, Canada, or the World are at, although in 2005 I did alot of research on the subject for a Literacy Guide I was commissioned to write. But so much change happens in 5 years.  Ebooks are big, now. Really BIG. Reading  is “sexy” again, according to a recent article (somewhere.) Young people read today, but in a different way, while texting and watching video and uploading images to Facebook.

Here are some of the pages I put together for that 2005 Literacy Guide. I wonder what remains relevant?

A Day in the Life of a School Librarian

Susan Singer is a library technician dividing her time between Dorset, Edgewater and Allencroft Elementary Schools in the Lester B. Pearson School Board. She started as a volunteer at her children’s school and liked it so much she went back to school to earn a Graduate Diploma in Library Science at Concordia University. In the fall of 2002, student librarian Nancy Zsar (now Nancy Jones) reported on a Day in the Life of this busy school librarian. Here are some bits and pieces.
8:30-9:30. Susan Singer draws library curtains, arranges an eye-catching display of books so that the visiting  children can discover them ‘for themselves’.
9:15 – 9:45. Grade 3 arrives. Susan establishes a rule for The Guinness Book of Records: No looking at it until ‘reading’ books are chosen and signed out.
9:30. Storytime.
9:45 –10:15. Susan gives ‘the tour’ to a new volunteer-parent who will work the desk. Two more volunteers show up. She tells them about the upcoming volunteer training workshop.
10:15 –10:45. Grade 6. Susan gives her talk and asks the kids for feedback: what books would they like to see in the library? What new titles are out there?She sets one boy on a mission to find Hallowe’en books because he wants ‘to help’.
RECESS:
11:20: Kindergarten! Susan explains to these little ones they must keep their books away from younger siblings, pets and mud puddles. She reads them a book about a dog and the room becomes filled with chatter about family pets.
LUNCH: Susan grabs a bite while taking care of some administrative details, updating the budget and such.She compiles a list of books to buy after work.
1:15 – 2:45. Grade one arrives. Our librarian arranges a selection of books on a low table to make the choosing easier. Too much choice is no good for this grade level.
2:50 – 4:00. On her second attempt, Susan gets a meeting with the school principal. He’s on her side, believing the school library should be used for more than taking out books. A lively discussion ensues. He gives his OK to apply for a subsidy for an author visit.
The bell rings. Susan is off to Babar on her book-buying mission. A librarian’s job, you see, is more than 9-5.
Quebec Federation of Home and School Associations Inc.

The Importance of School Libraries

“It has been demonstrated that when librarians and teachers work together students achieve higher levels of literacy, reading, learning, problem-solving and information and communication technology skills.” Manifest de la bibliothèque scolaire. UNESCO/INFLA, 2000 as quoted in Shine Amid the Brightest with the School Library. Quebec Coalition of School Libraries, 2005.

School libraries in Quebec are in crisis. Their inventories are outdated, their budgets virtually non-existent.They are under-staffed, often managed by part-time library technicians and volunteers, with volunteers often the only ones keeping the library open. In 1992, the school system listed 125.6 non-teaching professionals: librarians, teaching specialists and pedagogical advisors; in 1998, there were only 76.4.

In 2004 there were about 40.
For parents and children in a number of English communities across Quebec, the only library with English books is the local school library, where one exists.
Roch Carrier, renowned Canadian author, believes libraries are central to our identity as Canadians. He describes school libraries as ‘the heart of the school’, sustaining our culture, our economy, our democracy.
“Let us not forget,” Carrier wrote in a 2002 article in the Montreal Gazette, “our children must learn to read before they can learn to find resources on the Internet.” He said more: “Invest in a library to ensure that children in Canada grow up to be literate citizens and life-long learners.” Montreal Gazette 2005
“Good school libraries are now a rarity in public education,” says the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP), “which has resulted in limiting children’s access to books. For many students, their only regular exposure to Canadian books is through their school library.”

Association of Canadian Publishers, Press Release/March 10, 2005
Many of the teacher-librarians the ACP interviewed in a 2004 survey said that inadequate budgets increase their reliance on fundraising from parents and students, further widening the gap between have and have not schools. Some teacher-librarians reported that they must purchase books from yard sales and discount stores.
In January 2005 the Quebec Government pledged $60 million over three years to shore up school libraries and their reading programs as part of the Ministry’s Action Plan on Reading in School.*www.meq.gouv.qc.ca. School Boards are expected to contribute $20 million of the above $60 million from their own stretchedbudgets.
It’s a beginning, but clearly not enough. Our public schools deserve more.
Quebec Federation of Home and School Associations 2005

You’ve Got Mail: Titanic Era

A Pile of 1910 era letters. I have 300 of them.

The more things change, the more things stay the same. Cliche, no kidding. True? You bet.

Right now I am trying to publicize my ebook Threshold Girl, a story about my husband’s great Aunt Flora and her year at college in 1911/1912.

No vampires, no lesbians. Just Presbyterian teachers in the Edwardian Era. All corseted up to keep their morals from spilling out at the seams. See the problem?

(The newswires were abuzz  (ancient metaphor) with a story about X Files actress Gillian Anderson. Apparently she had a lesbian affair in high school or something. “Boy is her career that much in the toilet?” I wondered.” Actually, I like her a lot and she’s been working in Britain. And she starred in a fine production of the House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.

Anyway, it’s coming up to the 100th anniversary of the Titanic Era,so I’m using that angle to get attention, to try to get some publicity.

But I’m not living in the past,  my pitch is more about trying to promote an ebook. Ebooks are “IN” right now, and even if Amazon and a few others are trying to get control of the whole ebook thing, it’s still pretty much up in the air, I think. At least, I HOPE.

So I’m pitching my Threshold Girl as both an ebook story AND a Titanic Story.

The trouble is, who do I pitch too?

Arianna Huffington posted an interesting article last week on her Huffington Post. She worries that the  ’traditional’ news media was caught up in a dubious habit of playing second hand rose to Facebook and Twitter by covering little but  ’top trending’ stories on these social media, as if  ’top trending’ means IMPORTANT.

Of course it doesn’t, it likely means just the opposite.

That or Crime Stories. That seems to be all the traditional press is covering these day. It’s cheap: it draws readers through titillation. It’s tabloid. It’s lowest common denominator, but it seems to be all we’ve got lately.

My Threshold Girl story IS NOT a top trending topic on Twitter. (And there’s no Dead-Young-Women in story for titillation. No the women it in are all very alive.) The book popular in a few classrooms in Canada and the US, that’s all. (The follow up to Threshold Girl about Flora’s sister Edith, Diary of a Confirmed Spinster, does have a love-and-murder theme. So I’m learning.)

The question is? How to make a story about teachers in 1910, Presbyterians at that, ‘sexy.’

A headline I read (somewhere online) last week claimed that ebooks are making reading “sexy” again.

(I don’t think it was ever considered sexy. I know. I read a lot in my teens and twenties.)

Another article, I scanned quickly, says that ebooks are changing how we read: while texting, uploading, watching videos. Sexy because it’s so chaotic, I guess, so unpredictable.

Reading is no longer this ‘sit by yourself under an old oak tree by a bubbling stream’ type of activity.

Yes, we’re going through a period of exponential change, similar to the 1910 era, when the motion pictures (and they’d only been around for a few years)  were becoming more popular each day, and when telephones were becoming widely used- although LONG DISTANCE was still very expensive.

The Nicholsons of Richmond Quebec wrote a LOT of letters in the 1910 era, because they couldn’t afford to use the telephone for long distance. (That’s why I could write Threshold Girl, I have hundreds of their letters from the Titanic Era.)

The Nicholson women wore off a lot of calories walking to and from the mail in their town, Richmond, Quebec. About a mile each way.It was a favorite thing to do, after going to church. (Radio wasn’t yet around, although wireless technology was, so sermons were their only daily entertainment. ) They got mail twice  day! Even on Saturday.

I am guessing that for a couple of centuries now walking to the mail has been the highlight of many a person’s day. (Or even just getting the mail at the home.)

I’m not guessing. I KNOW it has been.

And even if the mailman mostly brought bills, junk mail and bad news, the hope always was that on THIS DAY, it would bring something better!  Amazing News! Or merely good news. Or just an entertaining letter, a happy letter, from an old friend maybe. A long lost friend, perhaps. A letter to lift our spirits, to make us feel valued, loved and less alone in the world.

(In 1910 people often wrote letters to vent or to complain, (like Greg Smith at Goldman Sachs, yesterday) so many letters the Nicholsons received from friends and relatives were major downers. (And in those days they had things to complain about: typhoid, cholera, scarlet fever.)The Nicholson letters are written in a time of family turmoil, so they are not careful sometimes and write things they shouldn’t.) If one of them writes something nasty about a family member, BURN THIS LETTER is often written in large print at the bottom. I have a couple of those. )

So nothing much has changed in that regard. 100 years later. With email, and texting, and all the rest that is evolving so quickly whatever I write now will be obsolete before I finish typing the sentence. (Maybe TYPING is obsolete, I haven’t checked.)

No, little has changed, if considering the human heart, the human condition: We’ve just got so much more media to build our hopes and dreams on, that’s all.

What has changed dramatically, is how PRIVATIZED our lives have become.  Threshold Girl reveals how, in the days before media, people had to rely on each other much much more. Changes were abreast though.

In 1910 Richmond Quebec was losing citizens to the big city and the West. It was getting lonlier in small towns, especially for younger people.

Titanic in Fashion

Titanic Fashion. My Delineator. I cleaned up this photo with Corel and inserted it my ebook, Threshold Girl, along with many other beautiful colour plates from the era. I suspect that I have the only extant copy of this pretty photo.

“Oh, we have missed Miss Wiley’s speech! says Edith. “Did you get a good look at her, at least?”

“Yes,” said Flora, disappointed and excited at the same time.

“Let’s go in anyway,” says Edith. “They usually end their meetings with a tea. And maybe we can learn what she had to say.”

As the women enter, they are asked to sign a book of condolences for prominent Methodist businessman Hudson Allison and his wife Bess and daughter Loraine, who perished on the Titanic three weeks before.

Beside the book is propped a portrait of the couple, framed in a black ribbon.

“We had a service at school, but not just for the important people, for all the 1,500 victims,” says Flora. “I attended the service for Mr. Hays in the American Presbyterian,” says Edith and then she remarks upon Mrs. Allison’s lovely hair of curls. “They are all the rage. The Ladies’ Home Journal says so.”

The assembly hall is only ¼ full, and it can fit 150 bodies or so. There are six somewhat looking confused older women in out of date fashions, seated at a head table. One woman, though, right in the middle, is the picture of elegance and composure.

“Order. Order,” announces this regal lady. “Well, that was most interesting, wasn’t it? Such passion on both sides of this issue. I don’t think we’ve ever had to break up a fist fight before. But, after all the excitement and before our tea, there is still some business to complete.”

This is an excerpt from my ebook Threshold Girl - that takes place in 1911/12 and is based on genuine letters from the era.

Edith and Flora Nicholson have gone to see British Suffragette Barbara Wiley speak, but they just missed her.

Well, I see that a 3D version of the great Hollywood blockbuster Titanic is soon to be released commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking.

I will go to the theatre and see it. I love the movie. I’ll drag my husband. He likes the movie too (it’s one of those movies that appeals to everybody) but he can’t see in 3D. He has a weak eye and can’t triangulate. Many people can’t see in 3D, including many First Nations People, apparently.

The Titanic movie has all the elements, and plays on the class divide. Di Caprio’s character is poor, Winslet’s rich.

Middle class people too liners too, at least well-off middle class. 2nd class!
In the summer of 1912, the McCoys, good friends of Edith and Flora and sister Marion, go to Europe. They ask Marion to come along but she writes in a letter home, “Teachers will have to make much more money before I see Paris.”

The McCoys bring her back a blouse from Paris and Marion writes, “Imagine me, wearing a real Parisienne blouse.”

The McCoys sailed in mid June 1912. Right around that time, a Montreal newspaper ran this story:

“Large ships are still in demand. Olympic sails today with full list. 676 first class passengers.”

“The popularity of the large steamer with the travelling public does not seem to be on the wane, as was feared might be the case in consequence of the accident to the Titanic. White Star Olympic is due to sail from New York today for Cherbourge and Southampton.”

The Olympic sailed every three weeks or more, from what I can see. July 6, July 27, August 17, Sept 18. “All steamers equipped with wireless and submarine signals.”

Dear Margaret: Don’t let the Preacher Bore You

The Nicholsons were at the peak of their problems in 1912, the year the Titanic Sank. Here are some quotes from Norman’s Letters to Margaret:

“I note what you said about the terrible boat accident. It is one of the worst I ever heard. With such a lot of important men to go down with it; Now that the country cannot afford to loose in a way but, I suppose, their places will be filled and in a short time and they will not be missed. I read of one pathetic case. Of man and wife from Montreal. She would not leave her husband: would rather perish with him than leave him on the boat. “

“Edith thinks its fine out there said the grounds and walks were nice and dry she was giving the news of the service held in the American Presbyterian Church eulogizing Hays loss to the Church and City. I have seen so much about the accident n the papers that I got sick reading it – there are so many conflicting statements that it’s hard to believe any of them.”

“The Nickelodeon’s were reaching critical mass in popularity in 1912, but Norman was ‘old school’ and got his entertainment from the pulpit. Woe betide a preacher who was boring. The Nicholsons were also feuding with a Dr. Kelloch, Richmond’s former preacher, over what I am not sure. But they ‘stung’ him by criticizing his boring sermons.”

“Did you hear the Kingsbury Minister? If so, is he as good a preacher as Mr. Sutherland. I received the papers you sent and in one of them I see that Rd has given a call to a Mr. McWilliam and in another place he is called McMillan. Have you heard him?. Is he a star preacher and is he an old man? So you have Dr. Kellock to fill in at present. I am glad I am not there to hear him, as really I would have to stay away from church if he preached “

Amazing, the mail in those days, considering.

“I have forgotten whether I answered your question about how far the Steel is laid West of Cochran. It is laid 200 miles West and 150 east at present. They expect to make the connection with the steel by Christmas west at Superior Junction. But I am doubtful if they can. I haven’t heard from any of the children since writing you last. The trains that carry the mail from here go through to Cochran in the night. Now, so they won’t interfere with the work trains through the day. So you may get my letters quicker then before. Your letter took four days to reach me “

They were feuding with their relations:

“These MacDonalds are a peculiar sort, self conceited lot of Highlanders.. Hard to make much of them. You seem to be the one they all have so much to say about, but I wouldn’t mind it. Just let them whistle it. Will come that they will all have to come to you in the end. I am with you so you don’t need to care. Do not let these things bother you if you can, they are second considerations “

Norman had had typhoid in 1896, the year he built Tighsolas.

“Now I wish you would be careful not to be around Florance’s too much. If it’s typhoid fever she has you know what a dreadful thing it is and catching. I think as catching as any disease altho some of the Drs. claim it is not. See you get sleep and rest enough and that you take plenty of nourishment to keep well, Keep out as much as you can in the fresh air. Do not try to do too much work running between the both places. You know what it would mean to us all should anything like that take you ”

Titanic Damage Control

This is from a 1908 Technical World Magazine, showing the Olympic and its sister ship the Titanic being built.

Well.

As I was looking up information on the garment worker’s strike in 1912, I found an interesting article from June 15 about Big Ships. This was just a few months after the Titanic sank, or is it sunk?, anyway.

“Large ships are still in demand. Olympic sails today with full list. 676 first class passengers.”

“The popularity of the large steamer with the travelling public does not seem to be on the wane, as was feared might be the case in consequence of the accident to the Titanic. White Star Olympic is due to sail from New York today for Cherbourge and Southampton.

It sailed every three weeks or more, from what I can see. July 6, July 27, August 17, Sept 18. “All steamers equipped with wireless and submarine signals.”

Now, I’m not sure, but the McCoys, Mr and daughter, of Flo in the City sailed to Europe on Sunday June 16, according to a letter from Marion to Margaret. Maybe they took the Olympic, who knows?

There were many liners sailing. These boats were big business. Hence the Titanic event being described as a mere ‘accident.’ Didn’t they see James Cameron’s movie?

That’s the trip to Paris and other destinations that they invited Marion along on, where she despondently wrote “Teachers will have to make much more money before I will see Europe.”

The Nicholsons were right in the midst of huge financial struggles, with Marion as their life-line.

In September, the McCoys brought her back a gift. “Imagine me in a Parisienne blouse,” Marion writes in a letter. The McCoys (an old Richmond family) also helped her land her own apartment on Hutchison, not an easy thing for a single woman to do in 1912.

In August, 1912, Edith and Marion went to Boston instead, to visit Dr. Henry Watters. They were introduced to a “Great Yankee” Chester Coy. “Chester is the man, now,” Marion jokes in a letter. Mrs. Coy, a hapless homemaker with no daughters to help, is anxious to marry her son off.

In September he visits Marion, in Montreal in her new flat on Hutchison. (How scandalous! Gentleman callers.) No use, though. She is already hung up on Hugh Blair. He dumps his old girlfriend “we were never engaged and I only thought of you as a very good friend” and proposes to Marion in May, 1913. (I guess it doesn’t hurt to have rival suitors when trying to get a man to propose.)

Marion finally does see Paris, in 1946, as a delegate of the Canadian Teaching Federation.

I saw notices in the 1912 Gazette, declaring which Montrealers, or Quebeckers were visiting Paris or London and in what hotel they were staying.

Titanic Ironies

Tea Party. Except these people are Progressives, although also very religious. That’s the way it could be in 1910.

I just got a cool email. It’s from the History of the World in 100 Objects moderators, who have accepted a Nicholson ‘artefact’ for inclusion on their BBC Radio 4 website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/9R4HSyRJT-Gd2zf5t4YI3Q

It’s the Grand Trunk Railway ticket Norman Nicholson took in early April 1912, to attend his brother in law’s funeral in Richmond. Ironically, the President of the Grand Trunk was Charles Hays, an American, who would die on the Titanic a few days later. Edith attended the man’s funeral and told her Dad about it in a letter. He then writes to his wife:
“Edith thinks its fine out there (in Ste Anne de Bellevue, where she is out visiting sister Flora) said the grounds and walks were nice and dry she was giving the news of the service held in the American Presbyterian Church eulogizing Hays’ loss to the Church and City. I have seen so much about the accident in the papers that I got sick reading it – there are so many conflicting statements that it’s hard to believe any of them.”

The History of the World Website page right now is showcasing a few other submissions from BBC Radio Four listeners: one a kodak brownie camera from 1916, likely similar to the one the Nicholsons bought for 5.00 and used to take the picture above.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/Qt0fN5_vQaKEw3WmG2wUyQ

Another irony: I just found an article from the Canadian Magazine April 1912, about the dangers of North Atlantic icebergs. This was published right before the sinking of the Titanic.

The Train Montreal-Richmond-Quebec.

That tea party again, entire picture. 1910 era.

I happen to have a train ticket from Montreal to Richmond, Grand Trunk Railway. More interesting, it is from March 1912, when Norman came to Margaret’s brother’s Dan’s funeral. (I just noticed! Marion and Flo would have passed through St. Henri and Pt. St. Charles so they would have rubbed shoulders with the parents and kids they taught in school… Many of these places don’t exist anymore. We tried to find Kingsbury and had no luck asking locals.

Grand Trunk Railway System, Conductor’s Ticket. Good for one first class ticket. Signed Charles M. Hays, President.

A few days later, Mr. Hays would become the most prominent Montrealer to go down with the Titanic.

Now, the stops are listed on the ticket. Interesting. Montreal, St. Henri, Pt. St. Charles, St. Lambert, St. Hubert, St. Bruno, East St. Bruno, East St. Bruno, St. Bazile, Beloeil, Otterburn Park, St. Hilaire, St. Hilaire East, Ste. Madeleine, St. Hyacinthe, Ste. Rosalie, Britannia Mills, St. Liboire, Upton, Actonvale, Danby, South Durham, Liscar, Gore, RICHMOND, Corris, Windsor Mills, Coney Island, Titus, Bromptonville, Sherbrooke, Lennoxville, Waterville, Compton, Hillhurst, Coaticook, Dixville, Norton Mills, Lake, Summit, Island Pond, Walker’s Ctc., Black River, Bulstrode, Ste. Eulalie, Aston Jct, Aston, Breault’s, St. Celestin, St. Gregoire, Doucet’s Lake, THREE RIVERS, St. Cyr, Danville, Kingsey, Warwick, Victoriaville, Stanfold, Plessisville, Ste Julie, Lyster, Method’s Mills, St. Acapit, Craig’s Road, Chaudiere, Chaudiere Jct, Chaudiere CVE, St. Romuald, Point Levi, Levis.