Ask any two Canberrans where pilot Francis Ewen crashed at the opening of Provisional (Old) Parliament House (OPH) on May 9, 1927, and you'll get three different answers.
The most common responses, usually delivered with very little confidence, are "Oh, wasn't it near the later site of the Edmund Barton Building on Kings Avenue?" or "I think it was in the middle of where the lake now is". Some paranormal aficionados have even tried to convince me that his plane nose-dived into the ground where the National Library was later built, and where his ghost supposedly lurks in the basement.
