The Battle of the St. Lawrence

The Second World War in Canada

• Author(s): Nathan M. Greenfield,
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Pages: 286
• ISBN_10: 0002006642
  ISBN_13: 9780002006644
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General ,

Description:... On May 11, 1942, a German U-boat torpedoed SS Nicoya, violently ending a peace in Canada's waters that stretched back to 1812. By the end of 1944, another 18 merchant ships and four Canadian warships would be destroyed. More than 300 men, women and children'including at least 260 Canadians'died by explosion, fire or icy drowning.