I have just been to the website of the museum devoted to the sinking of the Empress of Ireland at http://www.empress2014.ca/seclangen/home.html.
It was today that the Empress of Ireland sank after being in a collision with the SS Storstad in dense fog off of Rimouski, Quebec. More than 1,000 people lost their lives.
You can read about the sinking of the ship, read the personal stories of the people who were on the ship, and you can plan your visit to the museum at Pointe-au-Père (near Rimouski), Quebec.
You can even plan a boat tour of the place that the ship went down, and you can witness the images of the ship via underwater sonar!
The museum is open until October 5th from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every day.
You can also revisit my post The Empress of Ireland - May 29, 1914 at
http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-empress-of-ireland-may-29-1914.html
You can read about the sinking of the ship, read the personal stories of the people who were on the ship, and you can plan your visit to the museum at Pointe-au-Père (near Rimouski), Quebec.
You can even plan a boat tour of the place that the ship went down, and you can witness the images of the ship via underwater sonar!
The museum is open until October 5th from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every day.
You can also revisit my post The Empress of Ireland - May 29, 1914 at
http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-empress-of-ireland-may-29-1914.html
