Empress of Ireland Archives | Eve Lazarus Sat, 09 May 2026 00:28:57 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Guy D’Astous and the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck https://evelazarus.com/guy-dastous-and-the-empress-of-ireland-shipwreck/ https://evelazarus.com/guy-dastous-and-the-empress-of-ireland-shipwreck/#respond Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:03:41 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17259 I’m excited to be travelling to Quebec City this week to have a conversation about my book Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck at the Imagination Writers’ Festival. One of the best things about writing this book has been meeting people like Guy D’Astous who have long reaching connections to the ship.

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/guy-dastous-and-the-empress-of-ireland-shipwreck/feed/ 0 Beneath Dark Waters on the 6 pm News https://evelazarus.com/beneath-dark-waters-on-the-6-pm-news/ https://evelazarus.com/beneath-dark-waters-on-the-6-pm-news/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:23:57 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17913 You can watch my 2 minutes and 13 seconds of fame here: The Empress of Ireland’s BC Connection Global News – This is BC: It was great to chat to Jay Durrant about the Empress of Ireland on Global News this week. One of the biggest surprises for me while doing the research for Beneath… Continue reading Beneath Dark Waters on the 6 pm News

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/beneath-dark-waters-on-the-6-pm-news/feed/ 3 Remembrance Day: Honouring Tracey Archer https://evelazarus.com/remembrance-day-honouring-tracey-archer/ https://evelazarus.com/remembrance-day-honouring-tracey-archer/#respond Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:37:29 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17664 I was thrilled to receive an email from Paul Fletcher last week. He wrote to tell me that he had read Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck and that his maternal grandfather was Tracey Harley Archer. Lost wife and son: In May 1914, 33-year-old Tracey Harley Archer was travelling on… Continue reading Remembrance Day: Honouring Tracey Archer

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/british-home-children-a-canadian-scandal/feed/ 9 The Empress of Ireland and Oliver Mardall https://evelazarus.com/the-empress-of-ireland-and-oliver-mardall/ https://evelazarus.com/the-empress-of-ireland-and-oliver-mardall/#respond Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:47:34 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17283 September 25 is World Maritime Day, and this year’s theme is “Our Ocean, Our Obligation, Our Opportunity.” It’s a theme that could easily apply in 1914 when the Empress of Ireland sank, killing four more passengers than the Titanic. Oliver Mardall: One of those passengers was 31-year-old Ensign Oliver Mardall of Vancouver. Mardall was a… Continue reading The Empress of Ireland and Oliver Mardall

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-empress-of-ireland-and-oliver-mardall/feed/ 0 The Story of a Missing Film and a Broken Ring https://evelazarus.com/the-story-of-a-missing-film-and-a-broken-ring/ https://evelazarus.com/the-story-of-a-missing-film-and-a-broken-ring/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:18:30 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=17010 By Sébastien Hudon In the summer of 2020, my colleague Louis Pelletier, an historian of early cinema, and I learned that some very old film reels were to be auctioned off in England and bids would be accepted online. The one that caught our attention related to the Empress of Ireland. Louis and I grew… Continue reading The Story of a Missing Film and a Broken Ring

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/the-story-of-a-missing-film-and-a-broken-ring/feed/ 2 Empress of Ireland: Comaplix, BC https://evelazarus.com/empress-of-ireland-comaplix-bc/ https://evelazarus.com/empress-of-ireland-comaplix-bc/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2025 13:19:41 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=16799 Of the many places that victims of the Empress of Ireland disaster hailed from, one of the most obscure was Comaplix, a sawmill town on the northeast arm of Upper Arrow Lake in the West Kootenay.

Freda Evans, 27 ran the Lardeau Hotel there with her husband Russell.

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/empress-of-ireland-comaplix-bc/feed/ 2 Empress of Ireland: The Vancouver Connection https://evelazarus.com/empress-of-ireland-the-vancouver-connection/ https://evelazarus.com/empress-of-ireland-the-vancouver-connection/#comments Sat, 10 May 2025 13:51:10 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=15646 I gave the first talk about my new book Beneath Dark Waters at Black Bond Books in Ladner Thursday night. I’ve been researching and writing this book for several years and usually when I tell people what I’ve been working on, few have ever heard of the Empress of Ireland, the CPR liner that sank… Continue reading Empress of Ireland: The Vancouver Connection

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]]> https://evelazarus.com/empress-of-ireland-the-vancouver-connection/feed/ 4 Why I wrote a book about the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck https://evelazarus.com/beneath-dark-waters-the-legacy-of-the-empress-of-ireland/ https://evelazarus.com/beneath-dark-waters-the-legacy-of-the-empress-of-ireland/#comments Sat, 09 Nov 2024 05:02:59 +0000 https://evelazarus.com/?p=15162 In August 2019, I was sitting on a Zodiac in the middle of the St. Lawrence River piloted by a French Canadian marine biologist. The trip was arranged by Hugh Verrier, and we were right above the wreck of the Empress of Ireland, a CPR-liner that sunk in 14 minutes after being rammed by a… Continue reading Why I wrote a book about the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck

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