Four Canadians confirmed dead in Haiti

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RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said the force confirmed, Thursday, that Sgt. Mark Gallagher of Nova Scotia is dead.

Efforts continued to find missing Supt. Douglas Coates of Ottawa.

Elliott said Gallagher’s body was found in the rubble of his house in Port-au-Prince.

He offered his sympathies to Gallagher’s wife, Lisa, and children.

Meantime, Georges Anglade, a Montreal university professor for 30 years, and his wife, Mireille, have also been confirmed dead.

Their daughter, Pascale Anglade, a doctor in Charlotte, N.C., confirmed the deaths late Wednesday in an interview with The Canadian Press.

Pascale Anglade said her parents were visiting friends in Port-au-Prince and were killed when the house they were in collapsed. She said witnesses said there were no survivors.

She also spoke lovingly of her parents, saying their last conversation was a few days ago and was about their grandchildren

The Anglades were the second and third Canadians to die in the catastrophic earthquake, which is the worst to hit the poverty striken country in two centuries.

The first-known Canadian victim was Elmira, Ont nurse Yvonne Martin. She arrived in Haiti’s capital on Tuesday afternoon, about 90 minutes before the quake hit.

The nurse was the only one of her group who did not survive.

Martin retired a couple of years ago after 36 years at the Elmira clinic and started her humanitarian aid work, but was quick to help with the centre’s H1N1 clinics last fall.