Empress of Canada

Living in Interesting Times: The Early Seafaring Years of Lt. Cdr. J.C. Marston, RCN, CD, DSC (Retired) 1930-1945 My father first went to sea in the early 1930’s as a 15-year old bridge messenger aboard the  Canadian Pacific Steamship Company’s ocean liner Empress of Canada. until the end of WW2 in 1945.  He spent almost 2 years