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Transportation Safety Board of Canada office in Richmond Hill, Ontario. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB, French: Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada, BST), officially the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board (French: Bureau canadien d'enquête sur les accidents de transport et de la sécurité des transports) [1] is the agency of the ...
Accident Date Location Killed Description Ref. Les Éboulements bus accident: 13 October 1997 Les Éboulements, Quebec: 44 Canada's deadliest traffic accident occurred in Les Eboulements, Quebec, after a bus transporting a group of seniors suffered brake failure and careened down an embankment into a ravine, killing 43 on board including the driver.
Accident Date Location Killed Injured Description Ref. Jeannette's Creek train wreck: 27 October 1854: Chatham-Kent, Ontario: 52+ 48: Believing a westbound Great Western Railway (GW) express had already passed, a locomotive engineer backed his 15-car gravel train from a siding onto the main line, where it collided with the oncoming express. The ...
The death toll of 47 makes this the fourth-deadliest rail accident in Canadian history, [7] and the deadliest involving a non-passenger train. It is also the deadliest rail accident since Canada's confederation in 1867. The last Canadian rail accident to have a higher death toll was the St-Hilaire train disaster in 1864, which killed 99. [8]
The United Transportation Union appealed Smith's dismissal almost a year later, and when CN declined the appeal, Michel G. Picher of the Canadian Railway Office of Arbitration ruled in Smith's favor that he should be reinstated to CN in a position other than conductor after Smith tearfully expressed remorse for his role in the crash. [11]
Hayride accident Cormier-Village, New Brunswick: 13 1942 1942 Mount Cheam plane crash Plane crash Mount Cheam, British Columbia [55] 12 1954 Lake of Two Mountains boating accident Boat accident L'Île-Bizard, Quebec Twelve NCC (Negro Community Centre) children drown. 12 1970 M.F.V. Enterprise and MV Patrick Morris: Shipwrecks
According to the accident report, the pleasure craft ignored warning blasts from the approaching ferry and made a sharp turn towards the ferry just prior to impact. Both individuals aboard Star Ruby later died as a result of injuries sustained by the collision. [37] On July 21, 2003, Spirit of Vancouver Island collided with the dock at Swartz ...
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