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		BARON DE HIRSCH CEMETERY, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
	windycitymediagroup.com	HISTORIC IDEAS FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TITANIC Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the sailing of Titanic's maiden voyage. Several destinations, tour operators and exhibition companies are getting ready. For the real deal, visit Halifax, Nova Scotia. Halifax has a rich maritime history due to its closeness to the sea and as a safe harbor to ships coming from Europe. It may come as a surprise to many that Halifax played a significant role in the recovery effort after the sinking of the Titanic. ...	25th August 2011
	Toronto Star	NEW TITANIC ARTIFACTS UNVEILED AT HALIFAX MUSEUM HALIFAX A rosette fashioned from splintered pieces of the Titanic's grand staircase and a simple canvas bag used to transport one man's belongings to his grieving widow were unveiled Tuesday in Halifax, where 150 victims of the infamous maritime disaster are buried.The items, which were acquired in October from an auction in England, have been placed on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 97 years after the ill-fated luxury liner sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic....	16th April 2009
	telegraph.co.uk	HALIFAX: THE TITANIC'S UNDERTAKER Next April the Nova Scotia town will mark the centenary of its role in retrieving and burying the ship’s passengers, says Nigel Richardson. ...	11th January 2012
	Chicago Journal	SHIP TOWED TO HALIFAX New Haven, Conn., April 15--The operating officers of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company have been notified that the passengers of the Titanic will be landed at Halifax. There will be about 600 passengers requiring tr...	15th April 1912
	montrealgazette.com	MARKING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TITANIC DISASTER In Halifax, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic has, according to the province’s tourism website, the “the largest and finest collection of wooden Titanic artifacts in the world.” An exhibition opening April 12 will focus on the role Halifax cable ships and their crews played in the Titanic recovery effort. Admission to the museum is $4.75 for adults before May 1 and $8.75 for adults afterward. For children ages 6 to 17 tickets are $2.75 before May 1 and $4.75 after that. Kids 5 and under get in free. Special events in Halifax on April 14 and 15 include a nighttime walking procession, an interfaith service and a wreath-laying ceremony at Fairview Lawn Cemetery, where 121 of the victims are buried....	17th March 2012
	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
	New York Times	Y. M. C. A. GETS TITANIC BEQUEST HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 26 (AP)---A fund of $80,803, bequeathed by a man who lost his life when the Titanic sank in 1912, finally has been disposed of---to the Y. M. C. A. George Wright left $20,000 to "check the lure and bad influence of the street...	27th February 1951
		HOME OF GEORGE WRIGHT, HALIFAX, NS CANADA The home of George Wright...
		FILM OF THE MACKAY BENNETT RETURNING TO HALIFAX WITH BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS The cable ship MacKay Bennett returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the morning of 30 April 1912. On her deck were coffins, her crew recovered 306 bodies and brought 190 back to harbour. The rest were buried at sea. ...	30th 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
	Camden Post-Telegram	MR. SUTTON'S BODY TO BE SENT HOME Dr. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, in Halifax to Care for Corpse of Titanic Victim -- WIDENER'S BODY IS BURIED AT SEA --- Dr. F. H. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, is in Halifax, N. S., to receive the body of Frederick Sutt...	27th April 1912
	Herald News	NEW TITANIC BOOK 'A PEOPLE STORY' Hundreds of books documenting the sinking of the Titanic have been written. Then there are the movies and novels that depict the 1912 disaster. But too many accounts of the doomed luxury liner don’t tell the whole story, said Halifax author John Boileau. "They might mention in passing that there were inquiries conducted by the British and American authorities," Boileau said in an interview Tuesday. "They might even mention there was a recovery operation, which might get a paragraph or two or maybe a page, but generally the books end with the rescue operation." With his book Halifax and Titanic, which will be launched Thursday, Boileau hopes to fill the gaps in the Titanic tale and dispel some of the myths surrounding the disaster....	29th February 2012
	Camden Post-Telegram	MR. SUTTON'S WILL PROBATED TO-DAY Victim of Titanic Left Estate to His Wife and Daughter and Latter's Children --- RELATIVE AT HALIFAX TO CLAIM THE BODY --- Through Attorneys Gaskill & Gaskill the will of Frederick Sutton, a former resident of Haddonfield,...	29th April 1912
	Toronto Daily Star	MISS HILDA SLAYTER Halifax girl is sister to the Captain of Queen Victoria's yacht...	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
	Worcester Telegram	BODY OF W.C.PORTER REACHES WORCESTER Identified at Hallifax by Waldo E. Sessions who will have charge of the funeral which will be saturday. The body of Walter C. Porter, 10 Knox street of S. Porter & Co., last manufacturers, 25 Union street who met his death in the Titan...	1912
	Elizabeth Daily Journal	COMPLAIN OF CONDITION OF BODY OF JOHN MARCH The body of John S. March, one of the five mail clerks of the steamship Titanic and father of Mrs. John A. Corwin, of 261 Stiles street, reached Newark yesterday from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was taken charge of immediately by the undertaking firm o...	8th May 1912
		LETTER FROM RICHARD GILL TO THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA To The Provincial Secretary Halifax. Nova Scotia July 24 1912 I Richard Gill of Joy House Cougresbury In the County of Somers...	24th July 1912
	Chicago Record-Herald	FISHING BOATS NEAR Hope that some of the passengers of the Titanic not taken on board the Carpethia may have been saved was revived late tonight when the captain of the freighter Ultonia of the Phoenix Line, which docked about midnight, reported that he passed al...	18th April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	MELLEN IN TITANIC STATEMENT Offers Evidence as to Time Officials Knew the Vessel Was Lost [by The Associated Pres.] New Haven, Conn., April 23—In connection with the question at the time at which the White S...	23rd April 1912
		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...
	St. Ives Times & Express	MR. CARBINES INTERRED Through the courtesy of Mr. Carbines — brother of the late Mr. William Carbines, a passenger on the "Titanic" and who has only just arrived in St. Ives from America — we are able to give some information from a letter which Mr. William Cogar, loca...	10th May 1912
	The ChronicleHerald.ca (Halifax Herald)	EMOTIONAL STORY FOR VICTIM'S COUSIN Interview with Edith Benoit, of Halifax, NS, whose cousin, George Wright, a self-made millionaire businessman, perished on board Titanic. His body was never recovered....	15th April 2007
		VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM MCQUILLAN Has a stone in Fair view Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Titanic section, number 183. also named on the Belfast City Hall Memorial, Belfast....
	The Sydney Morning Herald	HAUNTING HALIFAX IF IT'S the Titanic you're thinking of, forget Leonardo DiCaprio.The name you need to know is Arthur Gordon McCrae. A second-class passenger on the ill-fated ship, McCrae was the only Australian passenger killed in the disaster that shook the world....	1st August 2007
	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...
	thestar.com	TINY SHOE SOLVES ID OF TITANIC'S 'UNKNOWN CHILD' The grave marker of The Unknown Child, adorned with stuffed animal toys, marks the burial site of an unidentified child who perished in the Titanic disaster, at the Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax. The child has been identified as Sidney Leslie Goodwin......	27th April 2011
	Elizabeth Daily Journal	RECOVER MARCH'S BODY On board the cable ship Mackay-Bennett, whicn [sic] is due in Halifax to-morrow with the bodies of nearly 200 dead recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic are the remains of John S. Marsh, of Newark, father of Mrs. John A. Corwin, of 261 Stiles st...	29th April 1912
	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
	Atlantic City Daily Press	PROBATE WILL OF TITANIC VICTIM Frederick Sutton, Coffee Importer, Leaves $50,000 and Upwards to Family ---------- The will of Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, N. J., who lost his life in the wreck of the steamship Titanic, was probated yesterday aftern...	30th April 1912
		KING'S GRAVE IN HALIFAX NS In memory of Ernest Waldron King Currin Rectory Clones, Ireland. Died on duty SS Titanic April 15 1912 Aged 28 Years "Nothing in my hand I bring Simply to thy cross I cling."...
		GEORGE WRIGHT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, HALIFAX NS George Wright built this development...
		ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Lemberopoulos, (Exact spelling should be Lymperopoulos) Mr. Peter. Missing. Greek. En route to Stamford, CT. Aged 30 years. Has a memorial in St. Johns Churchyard, Agios Sostis community, Messinia, Greece. This memorial was unveiled on 3rd Ju...
	thestar.com	GETTING READY FOR 100 YEARS OF THE TITANIC In a graveyard in Halifax, I brushed the dead leaves from the wintered grave stone of John Clarke, the bass fiddle player from Liverpool, England, who played with the band while the Titanic sank at 2:20 a.m. on April 14, 1912. “How will the world remember the sinking of the Titanic?” I asked myself, and set off to find out....	9th September 2011
		GRAVE OF MICHEL NAVRATIL Grave of Michel Navratil, in Fairview Cemetery, Halifax NS Canada...
		MORGUE PHOTO OF WENDLA MARIA HEININEN Wendla Maria Heininen (body number 8) in the morgue on Agricola Street, Halifax, NS....
	dailymail.co.uk	TITANIC HOLIDAYS: A JOURNEY TO NOVA SCOTIA, THE SPIRITUAL GRAVE OF THE GREAT SHIP You can't miss the Titanic this year. Even Julian Fellowes has got on board with his new series on the fateful voyage. You could, though, be marking the centenary of its sinking somewhere far more wild and rugged than your sofa - because the true guardians of the Titanic legacy are the people of Halifax, Nova Scotia....	16th March 2012
	Newark Star	GO TO SEEK BODIES OF ROEBLING AND BLACKWELL TRENTON, April 24---Believing that they may be able to recognize the bodies of Washington A. Roebling, 2d, and Stephen W. Blackwell, Trenton victims of the Titanic horror, among those recovered and taken to Halifax by the morgue ship, Karl G. Roeblin...	25th April 1912
	New York Times	MINIA REPORTS TWO BODIES Ship Returning to Halifax---Patrick O'Keefe's Story of Rescue --- The White Star Line agent at Halifax wired the New York office yesterday that the Captain of the steamship Minia had sent the following message: ["]Returne...	4th May 1912
		GRAVE OF ALMA CORNELIA PåLSSON Alma Cornelia Pålsson grave at Fairview Cemetery, Halifax NS Canada...
		HUTCHINSON - BODY 170 (UNIDENTIFIED) IT IS likely that body number 170 is that of Hutchinson. It was buried at sea. The estimated age was 25, and the corpse had keys marked "Carpenter's locker", with a wood rule, silver watch and chain. The Halifax Coroner's records ...
		GRAVE OF JAMES MCGRADY Grave of James McGrady (at Fairview Cemetery, Halifax NS)...
		60 OF TITANIC DEAD TO BE BURIED TO-DAY Speedy Interment of Many Unidentified Bodies in Halifax Becomes Necessary --- SEARCH IN MORGUE KEEPS UP --- Funeral Ship Minia, Which Picks Up 15, Ordered to Report No...	1912
	Elizabeth Daily Journal	FAILS TO FIND BROTHER AMONG TITANIC'S DEAD (Special to the Journal) Rahway, May 11---Mrs. Margaret O’Brien, of 90 Monroe street, returned last evening from a several days’ stay in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she went to see if any trace could be found of her brother, Arthur Kee...	11th May 1912
	Hudson Dispatch	BODY OF WEST HOBOKEN MAN, VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER, FOUND AT SEA Recovered by the Mackay-Bennett Ship and Will Be Sent Home. --------------- IDENTIFIED BY MARKS --------------- Fifteen More Bodies Were Found by Same Vessel Today --------------- Greenwood Robertson, of 222...	23rd April 1912
	Canada.com	TITANIC LIFE JACKET SELLS IN NEW YORK FOR $68,500 An unused life jacket from the doomed Titanic ship sold for $68,500 in New York on Wednesday, Christie's auction house said.The cork-filled life preserver - still largely intact, but stained and torn in parts - was thought to have been found by farmer John James Dunbar on the Halifax shoreline after the passenger ship sank off Newfoundland in April, 1912....	27th June 2008
	Voyage	LORD CROMER John P. Eaton Departed Stockton-on Tees, England 14 March, 1912 on her maiden voyage bound for Louisburg, Nova Scotia, in ballast. During her crossing she was badly damaged by ice and after 19 days of a voyage which should have taken no mor...	9th January 2005
	jewishdayton.org	JEWISH CONNECTIONS TO TITANIC f one thinks at all about Jewish connections to the Titanic disaster, the Strauses come to mind first, and then maybe Benjamin Guggenheim. But there are other Jewish connections to Titanic as well. Here, we share some of them with you. Kosher food on Titanic sheds light on immigration via England Kosher deli in England a Titanic survivor’s legacy Philip Aks: Lost and found at sea At Halifax’s Jewish cemetery, a Titanic section Great-grandson reflects on lives, deaths of Isidor & Ida Straus...	21st March 2012
	Halifax Evening Mail	THE SEARCH AT SEA FOR TITANIC'S DEAD THE STORY IN DETAIL OF THE MACKAY-BENNETT'S SEARCH FOR BODIES OF TITANIC VICTIMS ...	30th April 1912

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