Sunday 16th January 2000

John Morris Rankin (40), a member of the Celtic group ‘The Rankin Family’, drowned when his Toyota 4-Runner truck hit a large pile of rock salt, swerved, and then plunged over a 25-meter cliff into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. His son and two teenage friends were able to climb to safety after the truck hit the water. As one of Rankin’s friends said, “Why is it that all the good people died like that?”