Description
by Karen Autio
JUVENILE FICTION • Ages 8–13 • 198 pp • 5.25 x 7.75
ISBN 978-1-55039-151-0 • paper • map and historical photos • $12.95
Second Watch
$12.95
by Karen Autio
Second Watch is based on true details of Finnish immigrant culture and the sinking of the great Empress of Ireland. Over the eight years that this Canadian Pacific steamship sailed the Atlantic Ocean, it transported more than 117,000 passengers to Canada. The sinking of the Empress on May 29, 1914, remains Canada’s worst maritime disaster during peacetime. Of 1,477 passengers and crew on board, 1,012 were lost – more passengers than in the sinking of the Titanic. Yet the Empress of Ireland and its fate remain little known to most Canadians.
