Quebec historian obtains photos of salvage operation for Empress of Ireland shipwreck
The two photos that popped up for sale on eBay appeared at first glance to be nothing more than a piece of Quebec maritime nostalgia: men on a wharf in the early 20th century, with a caption reading simply “lighthouse, Gaspé 1910.”
“As soon as I saw the two photos, I knew that that scene was related to salvage on the Empress of Ireland,” said Saint-Pierre, a maritime historian who has written a book about the shipwreck. However, Saint-Pierre’s detective work was only beginning. He noticed the image of the back of the photos had bits of paper attached, suggesting they had been pulled from an album.
There was an agonizing wait to receive the album, including six weeks when it was lost in the mail. But in the end, the album contained more than 500 photos, including some 56 that were related to the Empress of Ireland. While a few had been previously published as souvenir postcards, “the vast majority of them had never been published or seen before,” he said.
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