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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... the bulk of 253 in Second Class. Commissioner David Rees (right) at the Empress's rail on May 28, 1914. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) Empress Memorial. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre). 20 LOSING THE EMPRESS.
... (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) Survivors at Mount Pleasant Cemetery memorial service, May 1961. (George. IN FEAR FOR YOUR LIFE.
... (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) Reorganized Staff Band, 1917. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre). 25 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
... (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) Globe headlines, August 1, 1910. 27 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
... (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) Here was one of the sashes, white with the crimson crowns, used at the 1914 Congress in London to drape empty chairs where Canadian delegates would have sat. It was given to Frank Morris and passed ...
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |