[1] Built in Combermere, Ontario in 1903, the Mayflower was a wooden 77-foot-long ship and was powered by two steam engines that drove a single paddle wheel in her stern.
On that night, it sank on Kamaniskeg Lake in a winter storm, losing nine lives.
Three managed to survive by staying afloat by clinging onto the casket that carried John Brown.
This tragedy marked the worst inland maritime disaster in Canadian history at the time.
[2] As a result, an island is named after the ship on Kamaniskeg Lake to commemorate it.