4 lives lost
On a pleasant Sunday afternoon a 17-foot launch flipped over while making a turn just above the old dam at Springbank Park. Of the nine passengers on board, only five survived. One of the dead was Robert W. Jenkins who had moved to London from a coastal town in Newfoundland because his mother had a premonition her son would drown. Jenkins’ fiancé, Beatrice Bannister, survived the sinking.
(Source: Notebook from Yesterday)
