St. Lawrence River and Leonard Delamont

Leonard Delamont: Clinging to the side of a doomed ocean liner, Leonard Delamont wrapped his lifebelt around his mother, kissed her goodbye and jumped into the glacial waves of the St. Lawrence River, according to The Chronicle Herald. Dubbed Canadas Titanic, the sinking on May 29, 1914, stands as one of the countrys worst maritime disasters, though a surprising number of Canadians have never heard of it and The young man, never to be seen again, was among 1,012 killed that foggy night when the Empress of Ireland collided with a freighter off Quebecs Gaspe Peninsula and plunged beneath the surface in just 14 minutes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.