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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... continuing on. Sweaty from toil, I enter the Château Frontenac's ballroom as. Canadian Pacific poster, circa 1927. (Canadian Pacific Limited) Arthur Creighton, in front of the Empress of Britain painting. SOUL OF A MACHINE.
... Arthur Creighton, in his Canadian Pacific office before a picture of the Britain. Quebec City and the Château Frontenac are seen in the background, a classic angle for views of such liners. Arthur's face is out of focus — symbolizing, I ...
... a Liverpool-bound CPR Empress after a night at the Frontenac. Here was modernity —. Arthur Creighton, in front of the Empress of Britain painting. Captain Henry Kendall. (Illustrated London News, June 6, 1914). 15 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
... Arthur. For a Swedish officer, Amanda Sandberg, the sashes gave rise to a vision of saved multitudes, dressed as if for marriage, travelling far to heavenly consummation: They're coming from stormy seas, They're coming from thorny roads ...
... Arthur & Cyrus &give us in due time the pleasure ofmeeting again with good news and all well. . . At Bic, No. 20 veers close to the ice-edged St. Lawrence. A Bach partita plays on the car radio. David had one more letter to write, a ...
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |