Empress of Ireland and Leonard Delamont

Leonard Delamont: The young man, never to be seen again, was among 1,012 killed that foggy night when the Empress of Ireland collided with a freighter off Quebec Gaspe Peninsula and plunged beneath the surface in just 14 minutes, according to Times Colonist. Compared to the famous story of the Titanic luxury liner that sank two years earlier, the Empress of Ireland tale has remained in the shadows and Clinging to the side of a doomed ocean liner, Leonard Delamont wrapped his lifebelt around his mother, kissed her goodbye and jumped into the glacial waves of the St. Lawrence River. Dubbed "Canada Titanic," the sinking on May 29, 1914, stands as one of the country worst maritime disasters, though a surprising number of Canadians have never heard of it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.