As she sat in Hamilton's Bayfront Park on Monday afternoon, Semna Mathew was in awe as she watched the total solar eclipse taking shape.
Afterwards, the 29-year-old from Brantford, Ont., had tears in her eyes as she described the "once-in-a-lifetime" experience.
"It's very special … my father passed away recently so I hope he might be seeing this from somewhere else," Mathew said.
"He was really fond of these kinds of things. He was the one that used to take me to these things."
She was among the thousands who gathered in the Hamilton and Niagara region to witness the celestial spectacle as the moon passed between the Earth and sun.
The temperature plunged and the sky darkened as the eclipse reached totality just after 3 p.m. ET.
Much of North America experienced a partial solar eclipse, with only some areas getting totality, including Niagara Falls, Ont., Hamilton, Kingston, Ont., Montreal, Fredericton, Summerside, P.E.I., and St. John's.
The next total solar eclipse in the Hamilton and Niagara region won't be seen until 2144.
Leading up to Monday's event, Glynnis Fleming, 65, thought she was well prepared for what was about to unfold. She'd signed up to participate in NASA's Eclipse Soundscapes Project and recorded her observations during the total solar eclipse from her backyard in Beamsville, Ont.
Even still, she said, she was left in awe.
"It was so much darker and dramatic than I imagined it would be."
She noticed that about 20 minutes before totality, as the sunlight dimmed, robins began singing like they do at dawn and dusk. Then, when the sun was completely covered, everything went quiet.
"I am blown away," she said.
Fleming will submit her observations to NASA, which is gathering data across the continent to help it better understand animal and insect behaviour during eclipses.
Hobbyist astrophotographer Paul Husain, from Toronto, had been planning for the last five years to watch the solar eclipse from Niagara Falls, Ont. — seeing one in totality was a bucket list item, he said.
When he got there Monday with his family, he aimed his camera at the clouds and hoped for a clearing in the sky. As totality approached, he got his wish.
"It was super cool," Husain said.
At Bayfront Park, Carter Mulrooney, 22, who lives in an encampment, said he only learned of the eclipse when he woke up to hundreds of people standing near his tent on Monday.
He didn't have a pair of safety glasses and said he stared at the eclipse without any protection.
"It was like watching the northern lights in shank-y old Hamilton," he said.
Antonella Giancarlo, spokesperson for the city, said housing services, community shelter partners and the city's street outreach team were all providing eclipse glasses to unhoused people ahead of the eclipse.
Giancarlo also said the city had glasses at recreation centres, museums and library branches.
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