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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... death. A quick walk-through of the hotel takes in the Jacques Cartier Room, shaped like the cabin on that explorer's vessel. The bar gives a sweeping view of the river whose name was given by Cartier, sailing it first on the feast-day ...
... death total overall, and the high-society aspect raised wider interest. Joseph Conrad, who explored themes of lost honour in Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, took keen interest in the Quebec City inquiry. “A charge of neglect and ...
... death's threatening wave before you;God be with you till we meet again! Inhaling evergreen fragrance in the dark, I trace a final path those voyagers might have taken. The bollards are empty now, the ship has left. Black waters lie ...
... death means victory; a cross is therefore surmounted by a crown. “The saved people become kings in heaven,” he added. On every Sunday nearest May 29, Salvationists held a service. Empress Memorial. (George Scott Railton Heritage Centre) ...
... death: “It was the cold that fixed us; that water was like ice.” Here also was a gold-plated cornet used in performances by the 1914 Staff Band, formed largely of officers at the Army headquarters. It belonged to Matthew McGrath, 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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