Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier and John Langley

pyjamas: Lawrence River, according to CBC. It went down in just 15 minutes, killing 1,012 of the 1,477 passengers and crew on board. The ocean liner sank 102 years ago this Sunday, after colliding with another ship in the St. Passenger pyjamas To mark the anniversary, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 has unveiled a new donation to the exhibit — a pair of men pyjamas worn by passenger John Langley, who escaped the sinking ship by squeezing himself through a tiny porthole. "We think he never wore them much after the sinking," Conlin said Wednesday, standing beside a glass case displaying the white and blue pyjamas. "He kept them as a memory of his close call." These pyjamas belonged to John Langer, an Irish immigrant and survivor of the Empress of Ireland disaster. Immigrant snapshot "That why Empress of Ireland is so important to us in terms of immigration history. Conlin said Langley was an Irish immigrant who had come to Canada just the year before on the Empress of Ireland, set up a ranch in British Columbia and was going back to Ireland to settle some family business. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.