Nearly 200 days ago, Alison Côté lost her 22-year-old daughter, Juliette, in a tragic boat crash.
“We’ve been doing okay,” Côté said. “Just taking it one day at a time. Good days and bad days.”
It happened on May 18 around 9:30 p.m. in the Buck Bay area of Bobs Lake, roughly 140 kilometres southwest of Ottawa.
Riley Orr, 23, and Kaila Bearman, 21, were also killed in the crash with Juliette, while they were enjoying the long weekend at a cottage with a group of friends. Five others were also injured that night.
Juliette had taken the weekend off from work so she could go, something her mother says she didn’t do often.
“I was kind of excited for her that she was going to be able to finally go and hang with her friends and just have a fun time.”
That excitement quickly turned to horror, as that …