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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... thing to do, ever since James Cameron's Titanic became a top-grossing film: in one Halifax restaurant, shipwreck buffs do the First Class menu while an actor circulates in the guise of her doomed captain. Our $150-a-plate meal evokes ...
... thing,” Paul reflected: “people left on the shore.” Bereaved Salvationists disdain mourning dress in the belief that death means victory; a cross is therefore surmounted by a crown. “The saved people become kings in heaven,” he added ...
... things we can overcome the immortal gods themselves. For dinner I go to the Versailles Restaurant, an older place with entrées not quite up to Louis-Quatorze criteria. From here I phone David Saint-Pierre at six, as advised. “Could you ...
... things are odd about the Empress,” he remarks. Who actually handled the wheel at the moment of collision? Why were the CPR records destroyed? Why did Kendall go down to a desk job? “Perhaps he didn't want to get on another ship.” Henry ...
... things out: starting at the outside, making your way to the centre of things, heading back to the normal world. She is writing a book about this. My own labyrinth journey has taken me into Quebec, and now it's time to take a wider sweep ...
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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 |