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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... Mount Pleasant Cemetery with a nephew, Paul Creighton. Having also broken ties with Salvationism, painfully, he sees the world much as I do. The Empress of Ireland memorial, to the right off Yonge in Section R, gives an effect of ...
... Mount Pleasant Road in the east side of Section O. Wilfred, the oldest orphan. Cyrus, the youngest. And Will: my ... Mount Pleasant Cemetery memorial service, May 1961. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) Reorganized Staff Band, 1917 ...
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51 | |
PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |
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Losing the Empress: A Personal Journey : the Empress of Ireland's Enduring ... David Creighton Sin vista previa disponible - 2000 |