History Matters: Trains collided on Saskatoon's west side during Second World War

Was it deliberate? That certainly seemed a possibility in wartime Saskatoon.
At 5:40 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 16, 1943, a Canadian National freight train ploughed into a Canadian Pacific passenger train at the diamond crossing northeast of the Union stockyards. It was the kind of incident that screamed sabotage.
During the dark days of the Second World War, when the Nazis occupied western Europe, Saskatoon readied itself for an enemy invasion.
In September 1941, and then again in October 1942, moc