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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... Calgary, W.J. Brown from Vancouver. Salvationists make up 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). 20 LOSING THE EMPRESS.
... history, I visited Mount Pleasant Cemetery with a nephew, Paul Creighton. Having also broken ties with Salvationism ... Railton Heritage Centre) Survivors at Mount Pleasant Cemetery memorial service, May 1961. (George. IN FEAR FOR YOUR LIFE.
... Empress hero Gideon Miller conducted the rites. The reason for bringing the body here is given in. Survivors at Mount Pleasant Cemetery memorial service, May 1961. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre). 25 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
... Railton Heritage Centre, on Bayview, I received a warm welcome as always at such Army functions. The centre's display of Empress artifacts held enigmas I had never sensed before. When Lieutenant Alf Keith came aboard the Storstad, numb ...
... father, the Staff Band's leader, and his wife. For the next eighty years Grace would often repeat her story, but most awesome was the. Reorganized Staff Band, 1917. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre). 27 PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE.
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PART THREE THE POWER OF MYTH | 123 |
PART FOUR THE BLACK DINNER | 147 |
PART FIVE MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES | 193 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 254 |
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