![]() “A few mornings since the wife of Jean Baptiste Romilly, a farmer in St. Things did not work out so well for the child in this account from 1895 and you can learn more of the gruesome details in the attached (I hope) report: The next year, a child was more seriously injured near Belleville. In 1881 a child was attacked near Gananoque and received minor injuries. Although many of the reports I provide are from the United States, I can let my loyal Canadian readers know that I did find some that were close to Montreal. If I fail, email me and I will send it to you. I was moved to assemble it all here and will attempt to embed the 50 page pdf in this post. Recently the great eagle event of 2012 was referred to and I was reminded of all the hard work I did on behalf of worried parents everywhere. I went looking for accounts of eagle attacks and found many of them over a period of 150+ years. The event in this case was clearly fabricated, but I did recall reading about such attacks. Given that many parents these days are highly attuned to the many, many dangers children face, they may have worried a little less about the eagle threat, but were probably kept awake wondering if such an event could happen. The proof was soon found to be false and there was one less thing to worry about. ![]() A child was attacked by an eagle in a Montreal park and video proof was offered. Six years ago that was typical of the many headlines that appeared in newspapers throughout the world. ![]()
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