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The sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland on May 29, 1914, with the loss of 1,012 lives, was the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history. Lying off Sainte-Luce, the wreck is the most structurally complete example in Canada of an early 20th-century ocean liner and the only surviving ocean liner of the Canadian Pacific Railway from before the First World War, when the company operated the largest transportation and communication network in the world. Between 1906 and 1914, tens of thousands of immigrants arrived aboard Empress of Ireland, and many of their descendants remain historically and emotionally connected to it as a symbol of their roots in Canada.
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