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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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 910/.916344
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-qu
- ISBN
- 9781550029840 1550023403
- LCCN
- G530.E4
- LCCN Item number
- C74 2000eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (253 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)jme00322756 (OCoLC)180772767 (CaOOCEL)404522
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
- PART ONE - PEOPLE LEFT ON THE SHORE 10
- SENTIMENT 12
- SOUL OF A MACHINE 13
- THE ARMY’S CARD 23
- IN FEAR FOR YOUR LIFE 25
- LOSING THE EMPRESS 33
- THE RIVER 35
- DIVING THE EMPRESS 48
- PART TWO - BLESSINGS 52
- CRAZY LIFE OF MAN 54
- CHOCOLATE TITANIC SHIP 60
- ANOTHER TITANIC DISASTER 66
- OLD TIMES ON TROUT CREEK 69
- FREE AND EASY 89
- UNITED FOR WAR 97
- TORONTO IS IN TEARS; CANADA MOURNS 109
- PART THREE - THE POWER OF MYTH 124
- THE REAL END IS THE JOURNEY 126
- SOMEBODY’S BAD LUCK 136
- REMEMBER THEM IN THE ETERNAL CITY 146
- PART FOUR - THE BLACK DINNER 148
- CRYSTAL PALACE DAY 150
- THE EMPTY CHAIRS 159
- SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE 160
- THE SHOCK OF THE SHIPS 169
- LIKE CORDWOOD 170
- SURREAL 177
- OUR LADY OF THE SICK 179
- THEN WE’LL ANCHOR IN THE HARBOUR 185
- WHEN THE PLOT STARTS TO DRAG 186
- PART FIVE - MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES 194
- DAMNED GOOD SHOW 196
- THE MOST PERFECT RAINBOW 209
- FROM THE NEW WORLD 219
- IN THE CABIN FOR THE NIGHT 226
- THE HEAD AND THE HEART 231
- LOST LINERS 243
- THE FARM 246
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 255
