Nov 10, 1975 saw the sinking of what ship, for 13 years the largest to sail the Great Lakes, which was later to inspire Gordon Lightfoot to pen his second top 10 hit?
Largest shipwrecks on the Great Lakes Largest shipwrecks on the Great Lakes The Great Lakes are the largest bodies of freshwater in the world. They are five giant freshwater lakes, named Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Thousands of vessels have sailed on the lakes from the late 15th century to the present day. Thousands of ships sank on the lakes from 1679 when "LaSalle"'s wooden barque the "Le Griffon" was lost, to the 1975 sinking of the giant freighter "Edmund Fitzgerald" on Lake Superior. Many of these shipwrecks were never found, so the exact number of wrecks will never be
Gordon Lightfoot him, as both musicians and friends, recording and performing with him for as many as 45 years. He said in 2016 that he wasn't planning to return to songwriting later in life as he'd concluded it was "such an isolating thing" for him earlier in his career, affecting his family life. As an individual, apart from various awards associated with his albums and singles, Gordon Lightfoot has received sixteen Juno Awards—for top folk singer in 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977, for top male vocalist in 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973, and as composer of