Ottawa's lost meteorite, as searchers fail to discover 'message from the sky'
A woman in Gatineau said she saw it, as she looked south across the Ottawa River from her home on Aylmer Road. At first, she said, it appeared as a bright light in the sky but, after it broke in two, she watched one piece as it travelled west, “throwing off tongues of fire as it went.”
Few people reported seeing the supposed meteorite that was said to have crashed into an Ottawa Carbide Co. coal shed on Victoria Island on April 24, 1910.
The object itself was never recovered, so the
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