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Message: [QUOTE="Arun Vajpey, post: 240668, member: 146608"] >>>>>>> This is indeed a mystery and one that requires further investigation to settle it once and for all. Since I live in Toronto, I may be able to dig up something; perhaps through the Royal York Hotel itself, if they have an archive.<<<<<< It will be great if you could clear this up! I have tried phoning both the Royal York and Toronto Star without much help. Perhaps the archives department of the latter might turn up something but they charge us to provide back issue information. As a local, you might have access to short-cuts that I do not. But it does increasingly look like it was the older man, Samuel John Collins who attended that dinner. During my research into the other one, John Collins, several sources stated that it was he who was present. One of these was Canadian author Alan Hustak in his book TITANIC: THE CANADIAN STORY. But when I e-mailed Mr Hustak recently, he suggested that he might have made a mistake earlier and now believes it was Samuel John Collins. In a way, that is both good and bad news to me. Good because I no longer have to try and track down the very long shot of Madeline Mann's sons to check if their mother told them anything about the conversation at that 1937 dinner. Bad because it narrows the available field of John Collins' post-Titanic life quite considerably. [/QUOTE]