Mr. Speaker, last week, November 10, marked 50 years since the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, when a ship and all 29 of its crew members perished in Ontario's waters of Lake Superior. It was one of the biggest disasters on the Great Lakes.
Although that happened long before I was alive, the story lives on to this day through Canadian artist Gordon Lightfoot's song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Lightfoot had a large role in bringing awareness of this tragic tale across the world. Lightfoot passed away in 2023.
The bell of the ship was recovered in 1995. On November 10 of each year, it is rung 30 times, once for each member of the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald and once for Gordon Lightfoot.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee....