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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... meet again! Keep love's bannerfloating o'er you;Smite 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 ...
... Meet Again.” Of all the old memories I felt then, one stood out. Salvationist children had to attend the hall three times each Sunday — two services, plus Sunday school in mid-afternoon — and I had a friend, Ken McGillivray, who endured ...
... meet new difficulties. Do your duty by yourfamilies. Help your comrades. Make Canada a home that will be a credit to the old land. Put Godfirst. Stand by the Army. Save your souls. Meet me in heaven! IN FEAR FOR YOUR LIFE I N 1988 ...
... Meet Again. The photo also showed David Creighton's oldest son, Wilfred, with a D wrongly substituted for his first name. Twenty years old when he and four siblings fell under the Empress's shadow, Wilfred held close to Salvationism ...
... meet in darkness, the gale more brutal than before. David's interest in the Empress arose after reading about Robert Ballard's discovery of the Titanic: “Here I was living in Rimouski, aware about this shipwreck and yet understanding so ...
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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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