It took Robert Page nearly 50 years to come to grips with the death of his father in one of Canada's worst air disasters.
On Friday, he wasn't alone.
He and about 350 relatives of the 118 people who died in the Nov. 29, 1963, crash of a Trans-Canada Air Lines flight came together in the community where it happened to mark the tragedy's half-century anniversary.
People who had never met but were connected through sorrow listened as the names of the victims were read aloud in a private service.
"They're spending time talking and getting to know each other and remembering their loved ones," Page said in an interview Friday. "I hope it's a time of healing."
The world was still reeling from the assassination of then-U.S. president John F. Kennedy when witnesses reported seeing Flight 831 catch fire and then explode shortly after takeoff from Montreal's Dorval airport.
A federal Transport Canada investigation reported in 1965 it couldn't...
