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	NEW TITANIC BOOKS FOCUS ON CANADIAN CONNECTIONS Mike Poirier Michael Poirier reviews Titanic the Canadian Story and Titanic Lives: On Board, Destination Canada...
Chicago Tribune	WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless sta...	18th April 1912
marketwatch.com	CANADA POST COMMEMORATES CANADIAN TITANIC TIES WITH STAMPS Canada Post unveiled today the images of the five stamps that will be issued on April 5 to mark the centennial of the sinking of RMS Titanic. The collection, created by Haligonian design team of Dennis Page and Oliver Hill, showcases the best-known ship in the world with depth and realism and adds some poignant Canadian attributes. Canadians, and the citizens of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in particular, played a central role in the Titanic event through recovery efforts. "To this day, Canada, and especially Halifax, has an enduring and remarkably human connection to the Titanic story," says the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Regional Minister for Nova Scotia. "The Canadian legacy of the Titanic still resonates strongly with everyone." ...	20th March 2012
Globe and Mail	LAST REMAINING CP STEAMSHIP COMING HOME TO CANADA The SS Keewatin, the last surviving Canadian Pacific steamship in the world, is coming home to Canada, more than 100 years after it was launched in 1907 at the height of the Edwardian era. The elegant ship, with its oak and mahogany dining room and stained-glass windows, ferried passengers and freight from Georgian Bay to Lake Superior for more than 50 years, until it was decommissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1965....	14th October 2011
BBC News	GOVERNMENT TRIED TO BLOCK TITANIC PLAY Documents from the BBC archive show how shipping firms and the government tried to block a 1947 radio play about the sinking of the Titanic.The liner's builders and shipping line were concerned it would damage the image of the industry as it tried to recover after the Second World War.Recordings of the ship's survivors and other archive material have been made public on the BBC website. ...	15th April 2008
	PRINCESS SOPHIA OFF TAKU GLACIER Canadian Pacific's liner Princess Sophia is seen off Taku Glacier in this 1913 photograph....	1913
BBC Northern Ireland	NOMADIC : GOVERNMENT URGED TO FIND FUNDS FOR TITANIC TENDER The government has been urged to fund the return to Belfast of a ship described as an "important building block" in a Titanic tourist project.North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds says cash is needed to bring back SS Nomadic, the last of the White Star ships.The ship, built at Harland and Wolff the year before the Titanic, was used as a tender to take first-class passengers to and from the great liner. ...	11th January 2006
Newark Evening News	GOVERNMENT TO SHIP BODY OF MARCH HERE The government authorities are making arrangements to bring the body of John S. March, one of the three United States mail clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic, from Halifax to Newark, according to information received by Miss Antoinette A. Mar...	29th April 1912
ic Birmingham	LABOUR TO THE RESCUE he Government has stepped in to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic - following a campaign by a Coventry man.Titanic enthusiast Howard Nelson recently launched the world's only Titanic Heritage Trust in a bid to raise the money needed to save the SS Nomadic, the last remaining vessel with direct links to the ill-fated ship.Yesterday the Government's bid of ?170,000 was accepted at a Paris auction and the ship will now be taken back to Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard, where it was originally built in 1912, to be renovated, the cost of which must now be raised by the charitable trust set up by Mr Nelson. ...	27th January 2006
Chicago Examiner	JOHN HUGO ROSS AMONG THOSE NOT RESCUED J. H. ROSS EXPECTED. One of the Titanic victims was to visit Dr. Hugh H. Perry, 9515 Commercial avenue, the latter part of this week. He was J. Hugo Ross, cousin of Dr. Perry and a wealthy re...	19th April 1912
	1911 CENSUS - ALLISON FAMILY In the 1911 Canadian census, The Allison family are living at 464 Roslyn Avenue in Westmount, Quebec. Hudson's occupation is listed as "financial broker". He worked 40 hours a week and had life insurance at the time of the census. Bes...	1911
New York Times	FIERMONTES FACE CHARGE OF BIGAMY Lawyer Urges Former Mrs. Astor to Depart From Italy Lest Government Act --- ROME, Feb. 11 (AP)---The possibility of legal action by the Italian Government on charges of bigamy against both Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte and h...	12th February 1935
Toronto Star	A PICTURE AND A THOUSAND WORDS Ninety-five years ago today, the Titanic sank. Some 1,500 perished. Canadian Arthur Godfrey Peuchen survived. It would be his undoing....	30th April 2007
New York Times	IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com...	8th March 1907
Washington Herald	PEUCHEN COMES BACK AT ISMAY Charge of Negligence Preferred by Canadian Official Is Supported by Witness --- New York, April 20---Although J. Bruce Ismay branded the story as "absurd," Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, vice commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and...	21st April 1912
Voyage	ROYAL EDWARD John P. Eaton Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd. Westbound Avonmouth to Halifax. On 8 April encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site : 42 degrees 50’N, 49 degrees 30’W to 42 degrees 30’N 50 degrees 1...	10th May 2005
Belfast Newsletter	A TASTE OF ULSTER WHETS US APPETITES THE arrival of Ulster's sizeable contingent of Government ministers, representatives of trade and industry, culture, tourism and leisure is the culmination of a four-month appetiser being served up in Washington DC. ...	28th June 2007
New York Times	CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, has been considered one of the most brilliant and successful of railroad of...	16th April 1912
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC Â£97M PLAN ON COURSE FOR 2012 FINISH The Â£97m Titanic Signature Project is "on course" to be ready for the centenary of the doomed liner after the Executive finalised its financial commitment, according to the government department leading the project....	3rd November 2009
Toronto Daily Star	A TITANIC SUIT newspaper article...	28th August 1912
BBC News	NOMADIC RESTORATION SURFS THE WEB The restoration of the SS Nomadic, one of the last remaining links to the Titanic, is to be charted on a new website. The ship was transported to Belfast in 2006 after being bought by the government. It saw out the end of the last century as a floating restaurant beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris....	28th May 2008
San Francisco Examiner	DOCTOR DODGE IS OPERATED ON; CONDITION SERIOUS Page 13, column 7 Former Broker and Assessor Very Low After Attempted Suicide With Pistol Following an operation at the St. Francis Hospital yesterday, the condition of Dr. Washington Dodge, former banker and Assessor ...	23rd June 1919
Star Phoenix	UNKNOWN CHILD'S IDENTITY CORRECTED AFTER TITANIC MISTAKE MONTREAL -- Call it a titanic case of mistaken identity. Five years ago, a Canadian forensic team made international headlines when it announced that it had positively identified the unknown child, whose body was recovered from the wreck of the Titanic in 1912. That identification was wrong....	30th July 2007
belfasttelegraph.co.uk	THE IRISH ROVERS RELEASE TITANIC TRIBUTE SONG The Irish Rovers, a Canadian Irish folk group, are releasing their fortieth album which includes a song that pays tribute to the Titanic, a ship that was built in their homeland, a century ago....	22nd February 2012
Worcester Evening Gazette	PRAISES HEROISM OF THE SAILORS NEW YORK, April 19- Heroism of the English sailors who went down with the ill-fated Titanic was the one thing which most impressed Paul Cheveret, the Canadian sculptor, who left the steamship in one of the first boats lowered. He said that there was...	20th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. GAGE REMAINS IN ASYLUM WASHINGTON, March 12---Mrs. Mary E. Gage, who was committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane yesterday for threatening Charles J. Bell, a Washington banker, still is a patient in that institution. Habeas corpus proceedings for her release we...	13th March 1912
BBC News : Northern Ireland	NOMADIC FITTINGS GO AS RESTORATION BEGINS The hard work of restoring the last nautical link to the RMS Titanic has got under way. The SS Nomadic - used to ferry passengers to the ill-fated liner - was towed to Belfast in July. Over the weekend it was stripped of the artefacts of its last incarnation - as a floating restaurant in France. The government has spent almost £700,000 just buying and getting the ship back to Belfast. ...	30th October 2006
Toronto Daily Star	I CAN ROW, BUT LET A WOMAN GET INTO BOAT Newspaper article...	19th April 1912
The Times	VISCOUNTY FOR LORD PIRRIE The following honours were conferred by the King on the occasion of the opening of the Northern Parliament:--- VISCOUNTY: UNITED KINGDOM. PIRRIE, THE RIGHT HON. BARON, K.P., LL.D., D.L., Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast.---Valuable s...	23rd June 1921
Globe and Mail	LETTER WRITTEN BY CANADIAN ABOARD TITANIC EXPECTED TO FETCH $10,000 For those who follow the lore of Eaton's department store, one tragedy stands out among others: the loss, in 1915, of the founder's granddaughter Iris Burnside in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. But three years before that, another member of the extended Eaton family, employee George Graham, had perished in an even more famous disaster, as a first-class passenger aboard the Titanic during his return from a buying trip in Europe....	12th January 2009
New York Times	HAYS HEADS GRAND TRUNK Directors of Canadian Line Elect Rock Island, Ill., Man Present [sic] --- LONDON, Jan. 7---At a meeting to-day of the Directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, Charles M. Hays was elected President. ...	8th January 1910
The Star, Christchurch, New Zealand	BRUCE ISMAY ARRIVES IN NEW ZEALAND, 1885 SHIPPING TELEGRAMS --- Auckland, Feb. 23. --- The Doric, S.S., Captain Jennings, arrived this evening. Left London Jan. 5 and Plymouth Jan. 8. Had fine weather to Teneriffe, arriving at 8a.m. Jan. ...	24th February 1885
New York Times	LUCILE GOWNS SEIZED All Imported Goods Taken from Lady Duff-Gordon's Establishment --- There was excitement among the half-dozen models from abroad whom Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon recently placed in her fashionable dressmaking establishment, Lucile, Limited, at ...	28th May 1911
	PRINCESS SOPHIA'S MAST MARKS HER GRAVE For a few weeks after the disaster, the Princess Sophia's mast marked her grave near Vanderbilt Reef. SomeÂ accounts claim that a winter storm toppled the last visible trace of the liner,...
Toronto Daily Star	ETHEL FLORA FORTUNE GORDON Page 36, column 6 On Tues., March 21, 1961, at her home, 1 Clarendon Ave., Toronto, Ethel F. Fortune, widow of Crawford Gordon, mother of Crawford Gordon and William Fortune Gordon. A private service was held at the funeral chapel of ...	22nd March 1961
Examiner.com	TITANIC ARTIFACTS ON VIEW IN ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER BEGINNING OCTOBER 1 Almost a century ago on a calm April night in 1912 the "unsinkable" Titantic went down after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 of the 2280 passengers on board the maiden voyage of the world's largest ship perished that night including business tycoons, artists and film stars, government dignitaries and immigrants dreaming of a new life in America.....
Titanic Research	A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Gavin Murphy How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters....	9th July 2002
The Post Standard	TITANIC SURVIVOR FINALLY AWARDED $280 Roberta Maioni Compensation...	27th May 1961
New York Times	AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne...	9th January 1911
Voyage	ROSALIND John P. Eaton New York, Newfoundland and Halifax Steam Ship Co., Ltd. (C.T. Bowring & Co., Ltd. Managers) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 6 April for New York. On 7 April at 45 degrees 10 ‘ N. by 56 degrees 40” W. encountered a str...
Voyage	TUNISIAN John P. Eaton Eastbound, St. John, New Brunswick to Liverpool. On 10 April reported heavy ice in the vicinity of an area that was later the disaster site. Port of Registry: Glasgow ...	12th November 2005
Toronto Daily Star	GILT-EDGED STOCKS AFFECTED BY DISASTER Canadian Press Despatch London, April 16.---The disaster to the Titanic caused a slight weakness to-day in glit edged securities on the stock exchange on sales by underwriters. The International Mercantile Mari...	17th April 1912
Southern Daily Echo	TWINNING WILL CEMENT TITANIC LINK In a cemetery in the Canadian town of Halifax in Nova Scotia, around 150 victims of the Titanic disaster are buried. Their bodies were recovered from the freezing waters of the north Atlantic days after the sinking.Now, leisure chiefs in Southampton are planning to cement the relationship between the two cities by signing an official "twinning" accord with the Canadians.The Mayor of Southampton, Councillor John Slade, is set to visit Halifax in March next year as part of the 95th anniversary commemorations of the disaster....	13th November 2006
New York Times	RUSH TO CONSOLE LADY DUFF-GORDON Stream of Visitors to Her Shop, Where Government Says Undervalued Gowns Were Shown --- SECOND ARREST IS MADE --- Abraham Merritt Surrenders to Answer Charge of Undervaluation in Customs Cases --- Abraham Merritt, f...	27th May 1911
The Scotsman	THE MAURETANIA'S SECOND VOYAGE article...	14th December 1907
New York Times	FINED FOR IMPORTING LABOR J. Mandelberg & Co. Must Pay $2,000 for Violating Law --- J. Mandelberg & Co., raincoat manufacturers, of 18 Twentieth Street, were ordered yesterday in the Federal District Court to pay a fine of $2,000 for violations of the...	24th November 1912
Fernie Free Press	A TITANIC STORY Hugh Brewster captures the tragedy of the famous ship in his novel, The Deadly Voyage, with historical accuracy and real-life drama. He uses his extensive knowledge of the Titanic, which he gathered while writing Inside the Titanic and 882 1/2 Amazing Answers To Your Questions About the Titanic, to create the novel. The Deadly Voyage is part of the popular I Am Canada series, which uses events in Canadian history as a backdrop to exciting adventures of daring young men. The book focuses on 14 year old Jamie Laidlaw, who has no idea that his world is about to turn up-side down, until he finds himself in the icy waters of the north Atlantic watching the “unsinkable” ship go down....	8th October 2011
Irish Examiner	TITANIC'S FERRY BOAT SAVED The British government paid ?170,000 (?250,000) today to save a rusting boat which once ferried passengers on to the Titanic.The bid was accepted at an auction in Paris after fears that the SS Nomadic would end up in a breaker's yard instead of being brought back to Belfast.The ferry was the last White Star vessel to be built at the city's famous Harland and Wolff shipyard where the Titanic was launched in 1912.A special charitable trust will now be set up to oversee fundraising and the full restoration of the Nomadic....	26th January 2006
kristv.com	ODYSSEY MARINE FINDS MORE SUNKEN TREASURE OFF FLORIDA COAST The Garisoppa does not hold the same place in history that the Titanic holds, but it is of interest to Odyssey Marine and the British government. "It was a cargo ship, it was carrying lots of interesting things of, most interest to us and probably our shareholders, it was carrying a lot of silver, potentially seven million ounces of silver," Gordon says. Seven million ounces of silver worth an estimated $220-million....	28th September 2011
Chicago Inter Ocean	NEWS OF DISASTER IS FATAL Former Member of Canadian Parliament Dies When Told About Titanic...	17th April 1912

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