The Empress of Ireland is a little known sea tragedy that killed more passengers than the Titanic. Kenzie takes over this episode discussing Canada's largest maritime disaster and the curse that may have doomed it.
Song in episode: Empress of Ireland by Coole Park
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Sources: Please check out all of the sources for this episode out below! Virtual Museum has a wonderful in-depth look of the tragedy, as well as voice overs of witness accounts.
Virtual Museum - Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père: The Empress of Ireland, a forgotten history
Adaptation of witness accounts by Denis Leblond (Virtual Museum)
Macleans - The Night the Empress Went Down
The Empress of Ireland - Crippen's Curse
The Irish Times - First Titanic, then Empress: an Irish man’s lucky escapes
Post Media News - ‘Forgotten Empress’ sank 100 years ago, took 1,012 lives
PBS - Lost Liners: The Empress of Ireland
BOAT - The Strangest of Sailor Superstitions
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