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HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING
HALIFAX, N. S.

PERSONAL TESTIMONY, Rev. Hugh Upham.

I met at North St. an old man whom I knew as a member of Grove Church in my boyhood days. He was going up Campbell Road followed by a number of people who vainly tried to make him hear. I shouted to him and he replied that he was going home. His home was now in ruins. He was cut about the face, and carried a looking-glass in one hand and a parcel in the other. As we talked, he sank down for very weakness. Securing a motor we took him to Camp Hill Hospital where he rested until we found his daughter on Le Marchant St. and restored him to his daughters one of whom had escaped in her night clothes from their former home and was now with her sister on Le Marchant St.
In the Camp Hill Military Hospital I met a Mrs. McLennan. She did not recognize me but thought I was a Roman Catholic priest. I told her I was a Presbyterian minister but knew her years ago. She told me if I saw her husband,George, to tell him she was safe and her son Leo also.
At the Military Hospital, Cogswell Street, on the same Thursday evening, Dec. 8, about 10 o'clock I met her husband George McLennan. I asked him how he fared: he said he had lost all. I told him I had seen his wife and producing my note-book was able to reassure him, although he told me he had been through all the hospitals but failed to identify her. He left immediately for Camp Hill. The next morning I found him there and great was his gratitude for the information we gave him.
In Victoria General Hospital on Thursday evening December6, I met a woman in very great pain. Her husband, uninjured, sat at the foot of her bed. She asked me if I was a Roman Catholic priest. I answered "No, I am a Presbyterian minister." She said, "Well, it is all the same now, Would you kindly say a prayer for me?" Her husband was also of

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