Jason Tiller's interests are other ships and ship disasters, sports, the paranormal, music...just to name a few. His research has focused on the Canadian passengers that were aboard the Titanic and is currently writing a full scale biography on the life and times of Lt. Colonel Arthur G. Peuchen, who was a first class passenger.

• Articles, Stories and Pictures (60)

  The Hundred-TN Rudder of the Titanic
  

  Added 14th April 2022

  The Titanic is a sister vessel of the White Star Liner Olympic, and will be ready for use late in the year.She is 45,000 tons register and 882 1⁄2 feet long, and 92 1⁄2 feet broad....

   
  World’s Largest Vessel Founders on Her Maiden Voyage
  

  Added 31st March 2022

  Loss of Life is Estimated at Eighteen Hundred...

   
  Toronto's Titanic Survivors
  We all know that the R.M.S. Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on April 10th, 1912 bound for New York via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, and that she struck an iceberg on Apri...

   
  Downshire House London home of Lord Pirrie
  Belgrave Square, London...

   
  Monster Liner was Launched at Belfast
  

  Added 14th April 2022

  Vessel 882 Feet Long and 45,000 Tons Register Takes to Water...

   
  List of Rescued Includes Mr. Hays
  

  Added 31st March 2022

  White Star People Say the Hays Party is Safe....

   
  Heroic Conduct of a Ship’s Officer
  

  Added 31st March 2022

  H. Lowe Saves Many Lives of Passengers in Boat...

   
  J. Borebank Known Here
  Passenger on Titanic Was Born in Toronto and Lived Here Most of His Life...

   
  Many Canadians on Fated Steamer
  

  Added 23rd March 2022

  Noted People From America and the Old Country on First Trip of the Giant Vessel Which Sank in the Atlantic....

   
  Nearer My God, To Thee, Is Musicians' Prayer
  

  Added 21st March 2022

  Those on the Titanic Played It Knowing Their End Was Close at Hand...

   
  No Red Tape over Bodies of Victims
  

  Added 21st March 2022

  What customs formalities would be exacted in regard to the admission of bodies recovered from the Titanic....

   
  Alfred Fernand Omont's account
  

  Added 7th February 2022

  Eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic by First Class Survivor Alfred Fernand Omont....

   
  SHOCK WAS FATAL
  BOISSEVAIN, Man., April 16---J. P. Alexander, ex M. L. A. dropped dead today when told of the Titanic disaster. He was troubled with heart disease. ...

   
  Grave of Milton C. Long
  

   
  THREE MONTREAL MEN---VICTIMS OF TITANIC TRAGEDY
  Article recalls Hudson Allison, Thornton Davidson, Harry Markland Molson......

   
  Anthony Wood Frost
  Anthony Frost...

   
  MAJOR'S DAUGHTER REMINDS HIM THAT IT'S HIS BIRTHDAY
  Jessie Peuchen Listened to Father's Graphic Story, ThenWished Him Many ReturnsHOW THE MAJOR TOLD HIS ENTRALLING TALE...

   
  LAST MAN TO LEAVE TITANIC WAS COLONEL GRACIE, U.S.A.
  -------------------Was in That Last Awful Swirl That Followed When MonsterSank------Came to Surface After a...

   
  How Maj. Peuchen Escaped.
  I said: Are you a sailor? and he replied that he was a yachtsman. Then I told him that if he was a sailor to get over the bulwarks to the lifeboat--to go ahead. He did, and proved himself afterward...

   
  Royalty's Deep Sympathy
  -------London, April 16. (Can Press.) ---King George has sent the following message to the White Star Co.:"The Queen and I are horrified at the appaling disaster which has happened to the Tita...

   
  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 ...

   
  WIRELESS WORK ON A YACHT NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME
  ---------------------J. G. Phillips, Who Flashed the Signals of Distress From the Titanic, Talked Several Times to Two Local Wireless Operators While Working on the Great Lakes Boat and Told of His Ambi...

   
  SOUTHAMPTON TOWN OF MOURNING
  SOUTHAMPTON, April 16.---Distressing scenes have been witnessed thruout the morning at the White Star offices here, which have been thronged by the relatives of the crew of the Titanic.  The town is absolutely stunned by the news of t...

   
  Wireless Flashes Heard By Two Toronto Operators
  -------------------------Messages Sent by Ports Along the Atlantic Seaboard Are Often Caught at (sic) Local Station if the Night is Clear---Tapping of the Instrument Decipherable at Tim...

   
  JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER
  Canadian Press DespatchNew 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:...

   
  GILT-EDGED STOCKS AFFECTED BY DISASTER
  Canadian Press DespatchLondon, 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 Marine shar...

   
  Silent Toast to Major Butt.
  NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 23.---A silent toast to Major Archibald Butt was drunk last night by the Second Company Governor's Foot Guard, one of the historic military organizations of the State, at its annual observance of the anniversary of the depa...

   
  Memorial to William T. Stead
  "W. T. Stead. 1840-1912. This memorial to a journalist of wide renown was erected near the spot where he worked for more than 30 years by journalists of many lands in recognition of his brilliant gifts, fervert spirit, and untiring devotion to t...

   
  Straus memorial
  IDA STRAUS ISIDOR STRAUSBORN FEB. 6. 1849. BORN FEB. 6. 1845.DIED. APRIL. 15. 1912"THEIR LIVES WERE BEAUTIFUL AND THEIR DEATHS GLORIOUS."...

   
  MAJOR PEUCHEN BLAMES CAPTAIN WHO WENT DOWN WITH HIS SHIP
  Loss of Titanic, He Says, Was Due to Criminal Carelessness in Running at Full Speed Thru the Ice With a New Crew--Capt. Smith Was Having His Dinner When Crash Came--Major Peuchen Left in Third Boat, Which Had Only 22 People and Could Have...

   
  THINGS THAT ISMAY DID NOT OBSERVE
  Bruce Ismay on the stand before senate investigating committee:"I saw no passengers in sight when I entered the lifeboat.""I did not see what happened to the lifeboats."...

   
  Major A. G. Peuchen, Toronto
  Cabin Passenger on Titanic...

   
  Charles Lydiatt
  Steward on Board Titanic, and Brother of Sergeant Lydiatt of Toronto Police Force....

   
  Grave of Hilda Mary Slayter
  

   
  Grave of Hudson J. C. Allison
  

   
  Grave of Hudson Trevor Allison
  

   
  Allison Family Home in Chesterville, Ontario, Canada
  

   
  Charles Hays' photo and letters at The Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  

   
  Tots Saved From the Sea
  These two handsome little boys, who are at the home of Miss Margaret Hays, are one of the mysteries of the Titanic disaster.  These small boys were rescued as the big liner was foundering.  They speak French fluently, and they know what their firs...

   
  The Second Officer
  LIGHTHOLDER [sic]The man who directed Major Peuchen to enter the Titanic lifeboat.  Telling of his own escape before the Senate Inquiry, he was asked:"Did you leave the ship?"...

   
  Carpathia wireless operator Harold Cottam
  Wireless Operator on the "Carpathia," who "Providentially" Caught the 'Titanic's Distress Call.'...

   
  Harold Bride
  One of the Titanic Wireless Operators Who Escaped and Who Testified Before the Investigation Committee on Saturday....

   
  EATON'S DAILY STORE NEWS
  THE STORE WILL CLOSE AT 1 P.M. TO-DAYAS A TOKEN OF OUR SORROW and sympathy with the widow, family and friends of the late Mr. George E. Graham, and as a mark of honor [sic] and respect for his heroic end on t...

   
  G.E. Graham
  Newspaper image...

   
  George Graham : AGONIZED WAITING IN TORONTO FOR THE SHIP THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT
  A husband nearing home, a wife receiving with joy the message that assured her of her husband's welfare. Then the news which has been received with deepest sadness by the whole world......

   
  I CAN ROW, BUT LET A WOMAN GET INTO BOAT
  Newspaper article...

   
  Titanic stood on end before she sank
  Lights all blazed until she took a vertical position....

   
  T. EATON STORE CLOSES SATURDAY AFTERNOON
  Newspaper article...

   
  A CITIZEN'S FUND IS OPENED IN TORONTO
  Newspaper article...

   
  THORNTON DAVIDSON
  Newspaper image...

   

• Biographies (5)

  

  Robertha Josephine Watt
  2nd Class Passenger
  

  Anthony Wood Frost
  2nd Class Passenger
  

  John Collins
  Engineering Crew
  

  Arthur Godfrey Peuchen
  1st Class Passenger
  

  Albert Adrian Dick
  1st Class Passenger