Ordon v Grail (and other actions) - Court of Appeal for Ontario (McKinlay, Catzman and Osborne JJA) - 23 October 1996

Jurisdiction - Wrongful death actions brought in provincial court - Whether permissible - Interaction between provincial statutes and federal maritime law

These were five cases concerned with three separate boating incidents in Canadian inland waters. In the first incident a passenger drowned when a pleasure boat sank on Lake Erie. The second incident involved a collision between two pleasure craft on Lake Joseph, resulting in death and personal injuries. In the third incident, on Lake Seul, the engine of a motorboat failed to disengage from a forward gear, throwing the operator and a passenger into the water, as a result of which the passenger drowned.