Museum of Civilization finally acquires Empress of Ireland collection

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When Heritage Minister James Moore revealed last week that the Canadian Museum of Civilization was being renamed the Canadian Museum of History, a large ship’s bell was among the artifacts arrayed around him at the gala announcement. Had anyone looked closely, they would have noticed the name Empress of Ireland engraved on its polished surface. The decision to display the brass bell was the museum’s understated way of signalling what curator John Willis calls “the single most important 20th Century acquisition that we’ve made” — a collection of nearly 500 artifacts recovered from the site of the largest maritime disaster in Canadian history.

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