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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... will feature this ship, which sank long ago in the Gulf of St Lawrence, and our Benefit Banquet will help to fund it. The courses are such as First Class might have enjoyed on the fatal night, exactly 84 years before. Quite the thing to ...
... will be found in the new museum, to be built near the disaster site and to feature a giant-screen spectacle, The ... will witness its departurefrom Quebec City and will share the enjoyable moments of the cruise up until the moment of the ...
... will later be reprinted with Xs to mark those who survive — only nine out of the thirty-nine who sail now. Here is Captain Edward Dodd, sub-editor of the War Cry, writing a despatch shortly to be mailed: From the train to the Empress ...
... will compose another to his family, that ends: “Our very best affection & love to all.” A bugle call, and warnings from the stewards: “All aboard that's going ashore!” Smoke pours from the two yellow-and-black funnels. “O Canada” and ...
... will keep that faith by journeying from such congenial corps as East Toronto into tiny missions in far-off territories. That night someone was leaving for Africa to do the work — and of course, we sang, “God Be With You Till We Meet ...
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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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