Photos de la collection George Grantham (Library of Congress) lors du naufrage de l'
Empress of Irland.
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| | Sailors taking children in coffins from LADY GREY at Quebec | | [1914 May] | | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | | Notes: | Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. | Photograph shows sailors taking coffins from the Lady Grey at Quebec City, Canada. Coffins contained bodies of passengers from the RMS Empress of Ireland which sank on the Saint Lawrence River, May 29, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, June 1, 1914) |
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| Rimouski -- handling coffins of victims | | [1914 May] | | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | | Notes: | Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. | Photograph shows bodies being brought to Rimouski, Quebec, Canada from the RMS Empress of Ireland which sank on the Saint Lawrence River, May 29, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, June 1, 1914) |
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| Rimouski -- landing bodies at wharf | | [May 1914] | | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | | Notes: | Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. | Photograph shows bodies being brought to Rimouski, Quebec, Canada from the RMS Empress of Ireland which sank on the Saint Lawrence River, May 29, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, June 1, 1914) |
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| Steerage survivors, EMPRESS OF IRE. Miss Anna Hammen, Miss Hilma Kalis, Miss Hilma Goosettill | | [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] | | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | | Notes: | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. |
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| Taking bodies from LADY GREY | | [1914 May] | | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | | Notes: | Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. | Photograph shows sailors taking coffins from the Lady Grey at Quebec City, Canada. Coffins contained bodies of passengers from the RMS Empress of Ireland which sank on the Saint Lawrence River, May 29, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and New York Times, June 1, 1914) |
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| Robt. W. Crellin who rescued little girl, Florence L. Barbour | | [1914] | | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | | Notes: | Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. | Photograph shows Robert W. Crellin of Silverstone, British Columbia with Florence L. Barbour whom he rescued from the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland on the Saint Lawrence River, Quebec, May 29, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) |
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| LADY GREY | | [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] | | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | | Notes: | Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives. | Photograph shows the icebreaker Lady Grey which was involved in the rescue of survivors from the RMS Empress of Ireland which sank on the Saint Lawrence River, Quebec, May 29, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) |
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| Wireless station -- Father Point | | [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] | | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | | Notes: | Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. | Photograph shows the wireless station at Pointe-au-Pere, Quebec which was involved in the rescue of the RMS Empress of Ireland on May 14, 1929. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) |
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| Dr. James F. Grant, ships surgeon, fixing up Gordan C. Davidson, survivor of EMPRESS OF IRELAND, with aid of nurses in Hotel Frontenac at Quebec | | [1914] | | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | | Notes: | Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. | Photograph shows Dr. James Frederic Grant (1887-1947) who survived the wreck of the RMS Empress of Ireland which sank on the Saint Lawrence River, Quebec, May 29, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) |
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| Rimouski -- Victims EMPRESS OF IRELAND | | [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] | | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | | Notes: | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. |
L’Empress of Ireland était un paquebot transatlantique de la Canadian Pacific Steamship Company (CPSC), inauguré le 26 janvier 1906, qui assurait la liaison régulière entre Québec et Liverpool. Le 29 mai 1914, il fit naufrage dans l'estuaire du fleuve Saint-Laurent, près de Rimouski. Ce naufrage (1 012 victimes parmi les 1 477 personnes embarquées) est considéré comme le plus grand naufrage survenu au Canada et se parmi les plus grands naufrages du début du xxe siècle, avec ceux du Titanic et du Lusitania.
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Source:
Flirck, Library of Congress
