if anyone finds it, let the lefebvre family in lievin know." mathilde never made it to new york. the following day, disaster struck. she was killed along with her mother, three siblings and more than 1,500 others. the ship sunk in the atlantic ocean. the wreckage lies about 600 kilometres south of canada's newfoundland. for more than a century, the little bottle drifted in the ocean until it eventually washed up on a beach in the bay of fundy. translation: it was a canadian family who discovered this - bottle while walking around. intrigued by two small rolls inside, the family broke the bottle and found the letter. when the discover was reported in canadian media, it was the final piece of the puzzle forjacques lefebvre and his wife helena, who had been looking into his family's past. translation: one day | i found that five members of the lefebvre family had died at the same time in 1912, so i called my husband and told him that a catastrophe must have occurred around that time. i immediately thought about the titanic. now he knows for sure,