Losing the Empress: A Personal Journey : the Empress of Ireland's Enduring ShadowDundurn, 2000 - 253 páginas The Empress of Ireland's last voyage ended on May 29, 1914, when she was rammed by a Norwegian coal-carrier in a fog patch on the St. Lawrence River near Rimouski. For David Creighton, her voyage still continues. In Losing the Empress, Creighton delves into the lives of his grandparents - Salvation Army officers who were lost on the Empress - and the lives of their five orphaned children who would soon be plunged into World War I. His discoveries reveal amazing details about the Empress, which sank in fourteen minutes with a greater loss of life than the Titanic disaster. Shipwreck nostalgia, last voyage dinners, Salvationists, the British Empire and the world wars fought to preserve it; everything comes into focus when the author joins Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard on a film shoot at the sunken liner's site. Losing the Empress lyrically traces a personal journey into the past and into the future. |
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... Army's Card In Fear for Your Life Losing the Empress The River Diving the Empress PART TWO BLESSINGS Crazy Life of Man Chocolate Titanic Ship Another Titanic Disaster Old Times on Trout Creek Free and Easy United for War Toronto is in ...
... Army's founder , raged against what a machine economy did to human souls , and planned to bring the deserving poor into Canadian farmlands . But it was only with modern machines — steamships, railroads — that. 17 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
... Army's immigration branch, crisscrossing the ocean on his far-ranging tasks. And on the Empress he perished: live by ... Army terminology, were “promoted to glory.” A wild Celtic dance performance, as in Titanic, ends our banquet ...
... Army's Third International Congress in London, cross over to the Empress. A stir is caused by the Territorial Staff Band, garbed in Mountie-style stetson hats and scarlet uniforms. Their group photo, taken before Toronto's City Hall ...
... : someone in a good suit wandering around , maybe with designs on ending it all . He asks if I need a ride . Not now , I reply , just going over a few memories . THE ARMY'S CARD F OR YEARS I DREW A mental 21 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |