Empress of Ireland museum - Complete tour - Pointe-au-Père - Ligthhouse - Rimouski - Québec - Canada скачать в хорошем качестве

Empress of Ireland museum - Complete tour - Pointe-au-Père - Ligthhouse - Rimouski - Québec - Canada

TREASURES FROM THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND Its sinking on May 29, 1914 on the St. Lawrence River near Rimouski, Quebec, was the worst-ever Canadian maritime disaster, with 1,012 lives lost, comparable to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. Yet few Canadians have ever heard of the RMS Empress of Ireland, an ocean liner used primarily to transport European immigrants up the St. Lawrence toward the promised land of the Canadian West. Struck at night in dense fog by the Storstad a Norwegian coal-carrier, the Empresssank within 15 minutes. Opening in May 2014, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of this tragedy, an exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Civilization will vividly evoke the drama and terror of that night in 1914. The exhibition will feature dozens of artifacts salvaged from the ship’s wreck, and now part of the Museum’s collection. Over the coming year, these and other related artifacts will be examined, restored and made ready for exhibition by the Museum’s team of conservators. As well as telling the stories of the crew and the individual passengers, the exhibition will offer a window into early 20th century Canadian immigration. The RMS Empress of Ireland and her sister ship the RMS Empress of Britain transported hundreds of thousands of European immigrants from Liverpool, England to Canada. According to some estimates, as many as one million present-day Canadians may have ancestors who came to this country on one of the ships. Rimouski is a city in Quebec, Canada. Rimouski is located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, at the mouth of the Rimouski River. Rimouski is the site of Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), the Cégep de Rimouski (which includes the Institut maritime du Québec) and the Music Conservatory. It is also the home of some ocean sciences research centres. One of the town's main tourist attractions is the Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père, which features an exhibit on the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster and the Pointe-au-Père lighthouse. The museum's exhibit on the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster commemorates the loss of 1,012 persons in the most fatal shipwreck in the 20th century, after the infamous Titanic tragedy. The "Maison Lamontagne" was built in 1750 per Marie-Agnès Lepage, granddaughter of René Lepage de Ste-Claire. It carries now the surname of the family that resided at it in 1844. It is one of the oldest half-timbered houses in Quebec and is within what is now called the District of Rimouski-Est. Today, a boulevard, park and monument at the western entrance of Rimouski bear the name of René Lepage. Strat 0:00 Middle 4:30 End 10:30