1920 - July 10 - 
1923 Accident
a newspaper story Father Gravelle wrote in 1964.
It is a remarkable story of a six-year old girl, Theresa Desrosiers, who lived on a family farm near Chiswick in 1923. She was picking flowers to take to her first communion when her father André accidentally hit her while mowing hay, and almost completely severed her left foot. Her father held the foot in place while Theresa screamed in pain. The nearest phone was in Alderdale, 6 km away, and Dr. Harcourt, the local doctor, was 16 km away in Powassan.
When Dr. Harcourt arrived three hours later, he immediately set about to remove the foot. Theresa pleaded for the doctor to 'wrap it up' and let it heal. 'Good Saint Anne will help me, and I can have my first communion,' she said. The doctor told her that too much time had already passed, there was no circulation to the foot and infection was going to set in, perhaps causing the loss of more of the leg.
Theresa's parents joined in the request to save the foot, so, against his
It is a remarkable story of a six-year old girl, Theresa Desrosiers, who lived on a family farm near Chiswick in 1923. She was picking flowers to take to her first communion when her father André accidentally hit her while mowing hay, and almost completely severed her left foot. Her father held the foot in place while Theresa screamed in pain. The nearest phone was in Alderdale, 6 km away, and Dr. Harcourt, the local doctor, was 16 km away in Powassan.
When Dr. Harcourt arrived three hours later, he immediately set about to remove the foot. Theresa pleaded for the doctor to 'wrap it up' and let it heal. 'Good Saint Anne will help me, and I can have my first communion,' she said. The doctor told her that too much time had already passed, there was no circulation to the foot and infection was going to set in, perhaps causing the loss of more of the leg.
Theresa's parents joined in the request to save the foot, so, against his
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