Son canot se renverse

Les registres de l'Anglican Cathedral Holy Trinity Church pour le 15 juin 1825 font état de l'acte de sépulture suivant : 

«Robson Buried 

Edward Robson, a Native of South Shields, in England, Mariner, aged sixteen years Coroner's Warrant Who on the eight day of June Instant was accidentally drowned by the Upsetting of a canoe, in the river St Lawtrence, and was buried on the fifteenth June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five.

By me Geo. Autbokd?  off. Min. at Quebec

Presents   John Rickaby

                Rob^t. Moins?». 

Le passage du navire au quai se faisait habituellement en canot.

[Summary :

The church record for the burying of a young boy in Québec, Québec.]