Divers find long-lost artifact from sunken Empress of Ireland in St. Lawrence River
Divers find a table-like structure that had once been on the deck of the Empress of Ireland — a ship that sank off the shores of Rimouski, Que. in 1914. More than 1,000 people on board died in the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history.
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In August a team of historians and divers discovered a 2.4-metre long table-like structure that once stood on the deck of the Empress of Ireland — a ship whose sinking off the shores of Rimouski in 1914 cost 1,012 lives.
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