The St-Hilaire train disaster occurs on June…
June 1864 CE
The St-Hilaire train disaster occurs on June 29, 1864, near the present-day town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, when a train carrying many German and Polish immigrants fails to acknowledge a stop signal and falls through an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River.
Though uncertain, the widely accepted death toll is ninety-nine persons.
The disaster remains the worst railway accident in Canadian history.