Just after midnight on May 29, 1914, the Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River, with a loss of 836 passengers, four more than had died on the Titanic two years earlier. Almost everyone has heard of the Titanic, but how many have heard of the Empress of Ireland…
Sheldon Goldfarb
Sheldon Goldfarb works as the archivist for the Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia.