DID YOU KNOW???

Elgin is widely known as the town that had a feast of geese when a flock of them dropped from the sky. Now there is nothing magical about it.

Graham Robertson who was a one time resident recalls eating one of those birds. As the story goes it happened in April 22 of 1932 or 1933, depending on who story it is had a flock of lesser Snow Geese and some Blue Geese flying over head at about 11:20 a.m.

As it so happened there was a severe thunderstorm over head at the same time the geese were flying. There were 52 of the geese instantly killed with an electrical storm, thereby raining geese down on the inhabitants of Elgin. Just think of all the goose grease there was.

A good portion of the flock fell to the ground, but some regained consciousness and flew off but in the end there were 52 geese lying dead on the street ready for the picking. Some had exploded from the shock and others had their insides broken and some were not. 

There had been a high temperature the day before and on April 22 low strato-cumulus clouds merging to nimbus were recorded and local electrical disturbances occurred throughout the west 

The RCMP declared that some of the geese were fit to eat and were distributed amongst the poor. All except one, and I wonder where that went.