I am very familiar with Gordon Lightfoot's original version and the story, although any Canadian from my generation knows about the Edmund Fitzgerald because of The Hip!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp9kZmcdBjc

By far the most influential Canadian rock band of my generation and Gord was a true poet.

Anyone having time look up their songs and listen to the lyrics a lot of them tell a really cool untold story like wheat kings! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIaBcfL6vU  Its the only reason anyone in my generation even knows about a 16 year old who served 23 years in jail for a murder he did not commit.

I don't trust the cops or the judicial system it makes far to many mistakes and I think its even worse in the US than it is in Canada and with the widening of the political gap in the average american it only stands to get worse IMO.