Losing the Empress: A Personal JourneyDundurn, 2000 M09 1 - 284 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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... Cyrus Creighton. When he also died later in California, his siblings had his remains brought all the way to Toronto. Why? For burial in the British soil of his lineage. “Our hearts are in Canada,” said my father. “This may be ...
... Cyrus, the youngest. And Will: my father, Paul's grandfather. Cyrus being unknown to Paul, I explained how he died suddenly in California at 16. How the siblings pooled resources to pay his large medical bills, and the cost of ...
... 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 or settled. This may be sentimentality but what would the world ...
... Cyrus &give us in due time the pleasure ofmeeting again with good news and all well. . . At Bic, No. 20 veers close to the ice-edged St. Lawrence. A Bach partita plays on the car radio. David had one more letter to write, a humorous one ...
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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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