Click on the picture to see a larger version.

Left: Dr. Urquèle Archambault (1872-1941) served as Hull town councillor from 1905 to 1909. He was mayor of Hull in 1911 and from 1916 to 1920. Right: Dr Joseph-Éloi Fontaine (1865-1930) was Hull town councillor from 1904 to 1908, mayor of Hull in 1909-1910 and Member of Parliament for Hull from 1917 to 1930.

Source:

Left: Centre régional d'archives de l'Outaouais CRAO - P33,S1,D1,P29. See also Denise Latrémouille, "Joseph Urgel Archambault (1872-1941), Doctor and Mayor of Hull (excerpts from Asticou, cahier no. 29, December, 1983, pp. 3-9). Right: Parlinfo (Parliament of Canada), Joseph-Éloi Fontaine, Complete File.

Last Trip: The Death of Alfred Bonenfant / 16

The Doctors

Charles O'Connor's telephone call brought Dr. Joseph-Éloi Fontaine to the scene. Alfred Bonenfant had already been placed in the cab but Fontaine took the victim's pulse and found it to be strong. Evidently neither he nor Dr. Archambault examined Bonenfant closely enough to realize how serious his head injury was.

Dr. Fontaine concurred with Dr. Archambault that the best course was to take Bonenfant to a hospital. Henri Fern volunteered to drive the cab back to Ottawa and another young man whom Fern did not know agreed to ride inside with Bonenfant.

The two doctors assumed that everything was now under control and that there was no need for them to do anything further. The two key witnesses, George Duncan and Louis Boileau, assumed the same thing and went home. It was now about 10:45 p.m.