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Empress of Ireland Team

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Surname/tag: Canada
Profile managers: Canada Project WikiTree private message [send private message] and Amy Gilpin private message [send private message]
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The Empress of Ireland Team is part of the Canada Project.

The RMS Empress of Ireland was an ocean liner that sank in the St. Lawrence River on 29 May 1914. It is the largest peacetime maritime accident in Canadian history, and is sometimes called "Canada's Titanic."

Conversations related to this project happen on G2G using the tag empress_ireland.

Leader Contact: Amy Gilpin

Team Leader: TBC

Team Members: Joe St Denis, Danielle Liard

Tasks

  • To identify and create profiles for the passengers and crew.
  • Create a sticker instead of a project box
  • Add 1st Class 87 passengers - Completed by Danielle
    • Connect each profile to the Global Tree
      • Write profiles for 1st class passengers - Completed by Danielle
  • Add 2nd Class 255 passengers - Completed by Michelle & Guy
    • Connect each profile to the Global Tree
      • Write profiles for 2nd class passengers, in progress by Danielle
  • Add 3rd Class 701 passengers - Completed by Guy
    • Connect each profile to the Global Tree
      • Write profiles for 3rd class passengers - in progress
  • Add crew members - in progress by Joseph
    • Connect each profile to the Global Tree
      • Write profiles for the crew members - in progress by Joseph
  • Identify the children - completed
  • Identify the rescued passengers - completed
  • Identify the Salvation Army members, in progress
  • Create the project profile 'Empress of Ireland WikiTree' Done
    • Transfert all profiles management to the Project Profile in progress
  • Change source link to wikitree images (link to Liverpool Museum not working - new link to image on WT)
    • Crew - Completed by Guy
    • 1st Class - In progress by Guy
    • 2nd Class -
    • 3rd Class -

Resources

Merseyside Maritime Museum

Commémoration 2014

Royal Alberta Museum

Photos of recovery operations found, CBC article

The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland by Logan Marshal - 1914

Team Pages





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