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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... living-room pianos; all asked about those people and were told the tragic story of the Empress. Speeches about the proposed museum go on at length, all in French: “cet important site patrimonial . . . ces précieux artefacts . . .facile ...
... living in California — an explanation that cuts to the marrow: Cyrus was always a Britisher at heart and in fact all of us here, though we be on foreign soil, yet our hearts are in Canada and therefore we do not altogetherfeel at home ...
... Next was “Land Beyond the Blue” with its vision of “hallelujah heaven”: mansions bright, harps, spotless robes, living fountains, golden streets. Still at meetings such imagery is repeated, as the Army. 29 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
... living in my own community, Burlington, he founded an Empress of Ireland Historical Society. This wreck now demonstrates, said Soegtrop, the infirmity of “humanity's most stalwart technology” in the face of nature. Man himself is a tiny ...
... living in Rimouski, aware about this shipwreck and yet understanding so little.” Soon he conceived the quest of his life, to reconstruct the last fourteen minutes endured by the Empress before sinking, in exact sequence. Everything is ...
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |