CANADIAN PRESS FILES The RMS Empress of Ireland, owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, sank in May 1914 in the St. Lawrence River. On May 29, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland, owned by the ...

Xhosa Chief Sandile Mgolombane kaNgqika is killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Captain J Lonsdale. A ...

In 1914, the Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River in eastern Quebec after colliding with the Norwegian cargo ship SS Storstad; of the 1,477 people on board the ...