That toll would put the Quebec incident as the deadliest train disaster since Jan. 21, 1910, when the back half of a Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) passenger train derailed, killing 63 at Spanish River, Ontario. The train, heading for Minneapolis, came off the tracks after it struck the end of a bridge, according to a government database.
Lac-Megantic’s fatalities surpass other train disasters in Canada in the past century, including a Dec. 27, 1942 accident when a troop train smashed into the rear of a packed passenger train in darkness at a station in Almonte, Ontario, killing 36.
A Sept. 1, 1947 crash between two passenger trains in Dugald, Manitoba that killed 31 people, and a collision between a Canadian National Railway Co. (CNR) freight train and a VIA Rail passenger train near Hinton, Alberta on Feb. 8, 1986. That killed 23 people, according to the database.
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