In the early morning hours of May 29, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland, a Canadian Pacific Steamship Company liner on the Quebec-Liverpool route, was traveling northeast in the St. Lawrence River ...

Today is Thursday, May 29, the 149th day of 2025. There are 216 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal became the first ...

1914 The RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, killing 1 012 lives. 1919 Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, which states that when light passes a large body ...

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 ...

On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to Liverpool, England, carrying 1,056 passengers and a crew of 423.

This ill-fated ship has been called the Titanic of its day. More than 900 years ago, William, the only legitimate son of Henry I of England, was returning from France with a huge entourage. At ...

Advertisement In 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union. In 1914, the Canadian ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River in eastern Quebec after colliding with ...

In May of 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the icy waters of the St. Lawrence River. More passengers lost their lives in this tragedy than on the Titanic. It was Canada's greatest maritime ...

On May 29, 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland was steaming along the St ... It was a disaster reminiscent of the collision of the RMS Titanic with an iceberg just two years earlier, but ...

As Liverpool mourned the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland on May 29, 1914, a poem written in tribute by local poet James Ernest Bygroves was distributed to a city in grief. “And deeds were ...