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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... Canada Mourns 108 PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH The Real End is the Journey 125 Somebody's Bad Luck 135 Remember Them in the Eternal City 145 PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER Crystal Palace ... Canadian Pacific poster, circa 1927. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
... Canadian Pacific poster, circa 1927. (Canadian Pacific Limited). PART ONE - PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
... Canadian Pacific poster, circa 1927. (Canadian Pacific Limited) Arthur Creighton, in front of the Empress of Britain painting. SOUL OF A MACHINE.
... Canadian Pacific. Their route was more northerly than the one out of New York, taking in the St Lawrence and thus, a shorter span of the Atlantic. My new friends ask why I drove all this way. As a grandson, I explain, of two people who ...
... CPR liners. Supreme among these was the second Empress of Britain, on which monarchs and movie stars once sailed. There is a photo of an uncle, Arthur Creighton, in his Canadian Pacific office before a picture of the Britain. Quebec ...
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |