Accident
Canada's worst railway accident based on loss of life happened on the GTR, occurring on June 28, 1864, when a passenger train operating between Lévis and Montreal missed a signal for an open drawbridge on the Richelieu River near the present-day town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, plunging onto a passing barge and killing 99 German immigrants.
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Famous quotes containing the word accident:
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—Walter Wellesley (Red)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Is this the nature
Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
The shot of accident nor dart of chance
Could neither graze nor pierce?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)