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Canadian Facts and Trivia - THE DISASTERS
The most famous nautical disaster in history has a few links to Canada.
When the ship sank, the nearest land was Newfoundland, then a separate Dominion, 590 km away. Four of the ships dispatched to search for survivors were dispatched from ports in Atlantic Canada.