Remembering the Sinking of the Empress of Ireland
Posted on 27th May 2016,
On the foggy night of May 29, 1914, Ernie Green held on to a corpse in the icy waters of the St. Lawrence River. It was his means of survival after the S.S. Empress of Ireland sunk in a collision. “Just to think that the ship sunk in 14 minutes,” says Ernie’s grandson, Major David […]