Sailing eastern Canada from New England

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — The pure fantastic thing about this Canadian province within the north Atlantic belies the horrific tragedies inextricably linked to the island’s previous.

Nova Scotia has a reference to three of the world’s worst transportation accidents of the twentieth century – the sinking of the Titanic, a Swissair aircraft crash and a harbor accident that killed greater than 1,600 folks within the deadliest human-caused explosion previous to the atomic age.