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Above:The scene of Alfred Bonenfant's fatal accident on Rue Du Pont (Bridge Street) about 20 years later. A streetcar is stopped at the terminus on the track that looped south from Rue Principale. The Ottawa House is at left under the Brading's Ale sign. The brown and yellow building is the Banque de Montréal, built in 1907. Below: Another photo taken sometime after 1907. The camera is at ground level and south of the Banque de Montréal (in the centre of the photo). A streetcar on the other side of the Rue Du Pont loop is passing the E.B. Eddy Co. office building, just where Alfred Bonenfant was struck by his cab. The Ottawa House is at the left edge of the picture.

Source:

Top: Rues Dupont et Principale, Bridge and Main Sts., Hull Que. (Montreal: International Fine Art Co. Ltd.; Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, CP 755). Bottom: Cor. Main & Bridge Sts. Hull P.O. [i.e., P. Q], Ottawa, Can. (International Fine Art Co.; Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Centre d'Archives de Québec, Collection Magella Bureau P547,S1,SS1,SSS1,D172,P5).

Last Trip: The Death of Alfred Bonenfant / 12

The Accident

At this point, about 10:35 p.m., the horse suddenly made a second dash for home, galloping down the slope that led to the Chaudière bridge. Alfred Bonenfant set off in pursuit, yelling "Whoa!" twice as he sprinted after the cab.

A little further down Rue du Pont George Duncan was sitting on a pile of lumber opposite the streetcar terminus while he waited for his wife to arrive from Ottawa.

Bonenfant overtook the cab on its left side as it was passing the E.B. Eddy office building and Duncan, only ten feet away, saw him try to swing up onto the driver's seat.

At the critical moment Bonenfant seemed to collide with part of the cab and was sent sprawling forward onto the cobblestones. Before he could recover the left front and rear wheels ran over his head.

Duncan saw Bonenfant turn a somersault, either from his own momentum or from the impact of the cab. He came to rest on his left side near the curb.