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Pointe-au-Père, Quebec
Pointe-au-Père () is a district (''secteur'') of the city of Rimouski, Quebec, which is located in the central part of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. Its population was 4,240 in 2002, the year it merged with Rimouski. It is named after Father Henri Nouvel, who celebrated the first mass there in 1663. Pointe-au-Père lighthouse along with the Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père museum are major regional tourist attractions. Murderer Dr Crippen was arrested when the steam ship , on which he was trying to escape with his mistress, who was disguised as his son, reached Pointe-au-Père. On May 29, 1914, the RMS ''Empress of Ireland'' sank in the Saint Lawrence River near this village, with a loss of 1,012 lives. Pointe-au-Père tide station serves as the reference point for measuring mean sea level for the North American Vertical Datum of 1988, which is the reference point for determining altitude in North America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Empress Of Ireland (1906)
RMS ''Empress of Ireland'' was a British-built ocean liner that Sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland, sank near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River in Canada following a collision in thick fog with the Norwegian Collier (ship), collier in the early hours of 29 May 1914, en route to Liverpool. Although the ship was equipped with watertight compartments and, in the aftermath of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic, ''Titanic'' disaster two years earlier, carried more than enough Lifeboat (shipboard), lifeboats for all aboard, she foundered in only 14 minutes. Of the 1,477 people on board, 1,012 died, making it the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history.Cd. 7609, p. 25. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering built ''Empress of Ireland'' and her sister ship, , at Govan on the River Clyde, Clyde in Scotland. The liners were commissioned by Canadian Pacific Steamships or CPR for the Transatlantic crossing, North Atlantic route between Liverpool and Quebec City. The trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
