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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
	PRINCESS SOPHIA OFF TAKU GLACIER Canadian Pacific's liner Princess Sophia is seen off Taku Glacier in this 1913 photograph....	1913
	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,...
Newark Evening News	WORD RECEIVED HERE OF C. M. HAYS'S RESCUE Among those well known in this city and suburbs whose name has been flashed as among the rescued from the Titanic, is Charles Melville Hays, president of the Grand Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway companies, of Canada, of Canada, a nephew of...	16th April 1912
	NEW TITANIC BOOKS FOCUS ON CANADIAN CONNECTIONS Mike Poirier Michael Poirier reviews Titanic the Canadian Story and Titanic Lives: On Board, Destination Canada...
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
Titanic Research	A TITANIC COINCIDENCE Gavin Murphy How the gala opening of two hotels was disrupted two maritime disasters....	9th July 2002
The Times	MR. CHARLES M. HAYS MISSING (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) --- MONTREAL, APRIL 18 --- A message by wireless telegraphy from the Carpatlhia was received at the offices of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in Montreal this morning signed ...	19th April 1912
Montreal Gazette	HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY Railwayman's family passes along prized artifacts to museum Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail 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 great-granddaughter to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-born railwayman's birth.Until Hays drowned in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, he was one of Canada's 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....	3rd August 2006
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
Toronto Daily Star	JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER Canadian Press Despatch New York, April 19.---Col Gracie, U. S. A. who was the sole survivor of those who went down with the Titanic, and was rescued, gave this remarkable statement last night:...	19th April 1912
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
Gare Maritime	THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED: ONE BLACK WEEK IN 1875 Jim Kalafus The double tragedy of the Pacific and the City of Waco...	28th June 2007
The Toronto World	C. M. HAYS' CAREER When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer. Mr. Hays had been in ...	17th April 1912
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	TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ...	1st May 1915
San Francisco Examiner	HERMAN KLABER ON BOARD THE TITANIC Native of San Francisco, in Business in Portland, Titanic Passenger Herman Klaber of Portland, one of the biggest hop merchants on the Pacific Coast, was a passenger on the Titanic. Klaber was born in San Francisco, went throu...	16th April 1912
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
Chicago American	TITANIC SAILOR SAVED BY MOUNT TEMPLE LIFEBOAT The Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple, en route from Antwerp to Boston, was so close to the sinking Titanic on the night of the disaster that the passengers heard the creaking of the chains as lifeboats were lowered, heard the cries of passe...	25th April 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION Rood, Mr. Hugh Roscoe. Missing. Ritz Hotel, London, W. Black Moore & Co., 5 East India House, London, E.C. Hotel Regina, Paris. Seattle. Travelling to USA. Vice president of The Pacific Creosoting Company. Cabin A32....
The San Francisco Call	SEATTLE MAN ON LINER SEATTLE, April 15 - Hugh R. Rood, vice president and general manager of the Pacific Creosoting company, whose name appears in the list of the Titanic's passengers, is a wealthy Seattle man who had been spending the winter on the continent w...	16th April 1912
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
ca	HALIFAX EXPLOSION VESSEL'S REMNANTS LIE IN FALKLANDS Built in 1889 by White Star, the same company that built the Titanic, it was first called the SS Runic, then the Tampican, and transported passengers on the Atlantic. In 1912, it was sold to Norway's South Pacific Whaling Company. The Imo amazingly survived its only terrible accident in Halifax but, with its new name, lasted only a few years....	6th December 2011
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
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
Toronto Daily Star	A TITANIC SUIT newspaper article...	28th August 1912
San Francisco Bulletin	LOCAL MINING MAN IS ON TITANIC'S DEATH LIST Colonel John Weir, a well known mining man of the Pacific Coast, was one of the victims of the Titanic horror. It has been learned by his friends that he took passage on the ill fated steamer on an unexpected trip to California, probably on urgent bu...	20th April 1912
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
San Francisco Chronicle	DR. DODGE AND HIS FAMILY ARE SAFE Page 1 Assessor Sends Two Messages From Carpathia to His Son Here-- Mayor Wires Reply Relieving the deep anxiety of his relatives and thousands of friends in this city, Dr. Washington Dodge, Assessor of San Francisco, ...	18th April 1912
Daily Telegraph	FIRE ABOARD THE "CALIFORNIAN" A telegram from Vera Cruz reports that the Leyland liner "Californian" took fire in that port and that the outbreak was not extinguished until much damage had been done to the cargo by fire and water. The fire originated in holds number four...	3rd July 1913
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
Toronto Daily Star	I CAN ROW, BUT LET A WOMAN GET INTO BOAT Newspaper article...	19th April 1912
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
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
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
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
New York Times	DYING MAN'S SON FOUND Potter Coming from Alaska to Atlantic City to See His Father --- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 28---For more than a month the family of Col. Thomas Potter, who is dying at his seaside home here, has been searching for his favorite ...	29th October 1910
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
Chicago Inter Ocean	NEWS OF DISASTER IS FATAL Former Member of Canadian Parliament Dies When Told About Titanic...	17th April 1912
Toronto Daily Star	MRS. E.F. GORDON Page 36, Column 2 Private funeral services were held for Mrs. Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon, wife of the late Crawford Gordon, a former manager of a Toronto branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mrs. Gordon died yes...	22nd March 1961
winnipegfreepress.com	SHIPLOAD OF TITANIC BOOKS AS 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF SINKING NEARS Does the world need more books about the Titanic? Probably about as much as it needs a 3-D version of James Cameron's movie. Still, a veritable shipload is being released to commemorate the April 14 100th anniversary of the sinking. While the world would continuing spinning without most of them, happily, the titles discussed are all first-rate. All tell the well-trod tale of the rich and famous who sailed on the White Star Line's ill-fated luxury liner; some highlight the effects the catastrophe had on the survivors, and others tell the story of the officers and crew. Two are by Canadians; John Boileau and Hugh Brewster fill out neglected stories of Canadian victims and Halifax's role in the recovery and identification of the 1,517 lost....	24th March 2012
Brooklyn Daily Times	BROTHER OF BROOKLYNITE, A PRIEST, WAS ON TITANIC Two of the visitors to the White Star line offices were Laurence M. Byles, Vice President of the W. E. Byles Company, Ltd., of 90 Wall street, Manhattan, and his brother, W. Hunter Byles, of Omaha. They went to inquire as to the safety of another bro...	17th April 1912
	H. M. T. OLYMPIC LEAVING SOUTHAMPTON The Ship that Brought me home Left Southampton June 7th - Arrived halifax June 132th 1919 1914 - Canadian Expeditionary Force - 1918 Mons St Eloi Neuve Chapelle Y...
New York Times	A. A. STEWART LEFT $276,974 Titanic Victim's Estate Goes to His Widow and Daughter --- An appraisal of the estate of Albert A. Stewart, who perished on the Titanic, was transmitted yesterday to the Surrogates' Court under transfer tax proceedings. Mr. Stewart was f...	1st February 1913
	NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS The Los Angeles Times of April 17th 1912 stated that he was a brother of E. D. Rood of El Centro, California. The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) of April 13th 1992 stated that he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Pacific Coast Creosotin...

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