LAC−MÉGANTIC, Que.—Raymond Savoie has lived all his 71 years in a small stone house, surrounded by farmland, that was originally built by his great−grandfather nearly 100 years ago in Lac−Mégantic, Que.
But last month, he and his partner, Rita Boulanger, learned that their home and part of their land will be expropriated by the federal government on Aug. 1 for a project to divert trains from the community’s downtown, parts of which were destroyed in 2013 when an oil−laden train derailed and killed 47 people.
