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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... became a cropper, just like the Empress ofIreland! A multi-media museum 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 ...
... became absorbed in its meanings. One night I went back to the Army citadel attended by my family — East Toronto corps at 107 Cedarvale Avenue. A block away at the Danforth-and-Woodbine corner, there would be open-air meetings at which ...
... became a delicate one. Here on display, nonetheless, was a photo showing “The Ensemble” — a partial reconstruction of the Staff Band including survivors, as seen in 1917. Keith was in the top row near Bert Greenaway, who had been able ...
... became fascinated by the wreck and made it known. “Come and dive the Empress,” he said to Soegtrop and many others. The Quebecois phrase au bout — to the limit and then some — has been applied to Beaudry's well-publicized dives. With ...
... became comically labelled — the “Board of Directors” comprising higher-ups, for instance. David sat with those who named themselves the “Festive Board”: more jokes, more fun. So David implies that after the modest fare such as the ...
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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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