Monday, August 20, 2012

Rimouski's LightHouse, Empress of Ireland Museum, Submarine

We spent about 3 hours at this spot north of Rimouski where;
There was a lighthouse; one of the better ones we've seen so far.
There was a submarine too but the most interesting was a museum that chronicled the disaster of the Empress of Ireland cruise ship. 
Just like the Titanic she went down and very few survived.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/collections/liners/empress/

Only two years after the Titanic in 1914 the Empress of Ireland collided with another ship in the St Lawrence & " A mere 14 minutes after the collision, she sank. And by the time the last nearly frozen survivor had been fished from the water, the death toll was staggering. Of the 1,477 on board, 1,012 lost their lives, including 840 passengers, eight more than had died when the Titanic sank."
http://www.pbs.org/lostliners/empress.html

So my little movie here shows a bit of all this area offered.


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