If you're visiting during this season, it's in your best interest to book at least several weeks early to ensure hotel availability and decent room rates. Key Events: 1  Formula One: Grand Prix of Canada (June). 2  Montreal International Jazz Festival (June-July).
On October 25, 1865, the legendary SS Republic sank 1,700 feet to the bottom of the Atlantic. With Odysseyâs 2003 discovery of the SS Republic, the shipâs remarkable legacy lives on as her story is chronicled in publications, television documentaries and exhibits.
If under attack by surface ships, there was some chance for some of the crew to escape and be rescued by the attackers: three of four u-boats sunk off the US coast with survivors were sunk by surface ships, compared to only one u-boat sunk by aircraft attack with survivors. U-166 - sunk 30 July 1942 in the Gulf of Mexico. No survivors, 52 dead.