In August a team of historians and divers discovered a 2.4-metre long table-like structure that once stood on the deck of the Empress of Ireland a ship whose sinking off the shores of Rimouski in 1914 cost 1,012 lives.
MONTREAL The two photos that popped up for sale on eBay appeared at first glance to be nothing more than a piece of Quebec maritime nostalgia: men on a wharf in the early 20th century, with a caption reading simply "lighthouse, Gaspé 1910."