Grand Trunk Railway - Accident

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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