Eric Philpott’s father Keith was working at the site of one of the worst workplace fatalities in Ontario’s history.
He’s now embarked on an ambitious plan to discover the truth and document the pain of the victims’ families more than 60 years later in a new documentary called ‘Dresden 1957’.
“What if I hadn’t found my father’s diary? I would never know about this. What if nobody ever thought to just tell the story?” Philpott told CTV News Thursday in an interview from his home in Toronto.
“I now feel very obligated to make sure that this story is told,” Philpott said.
Keith Philpott (L) on the night of the cave in (Source: Eric Philpott)
In 1957, according to Philpott, the province was helping municipalities build water treatment plants.
In Dresden, a crew of workers from the Netherlands was digging a 35-foot pit for the pump station along the banks …