The SS Asia was a Canadian passenger steamship and package freighter of the Northwestern Transportation Company.

Heavily laden and top-heavy with freight, she sank near Lonely Island in Georgian Bay on 14 September 1882 with a loss of 123 lives.

The doomed vessel had been fitted with flimsy lifeboats, which repeatedly overturned in the heavy waters.

A lifeboat that had originally saved 18 officers and passengers from the foundering Asia then capsized over and over in storm conditions, leading to the deaths of most of the castaways.

[1][2] The survivors were two teenage-aged young adults, Christina Ann Morrison and Duncan Tinkis.