Empress of Ireland and Storstad

Canadian Pacific Line steamship built 1906 at Glasgow by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd. This image id from a postcard with 3 photographs, the top one showing the Empress of Ireland which sank, and the bottom one the collier Storstad after the fatal collision May 29th 1914. The the steamers collided in the St. Lawrence River with the loss of 1012 passengers and crew, on the middle photo some of the dead are brought to Quebec. The image is from an old postcard. For more ship history see: S/S Empress of Ireland