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Railwaymans family passes along prized artifacts to museum Article Tools Printer friendly Email Font ALAN HUSTAK The Gazette Published Thursday August 03 2006 Valuable family memorabilia once owned by industrialist Charles Melville Hays was donated to the railway museum in St Constant yesterday by his greatgranddaughter to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the USborn railwaymans birthUntil Hays drowned in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 he was one of Canadas leading magnates As president of the Grand Trunk Railway Hays was the architect of a second transcontinental railway line to rival Canadian Pacific and the person responsible for building the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa and the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg