Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Baxter Family
Widower Hélène Baxter, her daughter Mrs. Mary Hélène Jane "Suzette" (they called her Zette) Douglas, and her son Quigg boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg. They had been vacationing in Europe, as well as looking after the family's investments. They were...
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Berthe Mayné
Berthe Mayné was a very beautiful young woman, with a lovely singing voice. She was born into a poor working class, Catholic family. Her father was a steel worker and she had four sisters and two brothers, but she longed...
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Paul Chevré
Paul Chevré was a French sculptor who boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as a first class passenger. He was on his way to Canada to supervise the instillation of his monument to Honoré Mercier, as well as attend the unveiling...
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Hays Family
Charles Melville Hays was President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies (later became the Canadian National Railway). He was the architect of a second transcontinental railway line to rival Canadian Pacific, that would run from Moncton,...
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Adolphe Saalfeld
Adolphe Saalfeld was a 47-year-old chemist/distiller and a wealthy businessman from Manchester. He boarded the Titanic in Southampton as a first class passenger. He was on his way to New York City to hopefully launch his own perfume business. He...
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Bertha Watt
Bertha Watt was a young twelve- year- old Scottish girl travelling with her mother Bessie as 2nd class passengers. They boarded in Southampton and were heading to Portland, Oregon to be reunited with her father who was an architect. Bertha...
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Mary Snider
Mary Snider was a reporter from the Toronto Telegram. She was sent down to New York with another reporter and a staff artist to get the Canadian stories when the Carpathia arrived. There were more than twenty Canadian news reporters...
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Neshan Krekorian
Neshan Krekorian was told by his father to make a new life for himself in Canada - far away from the persecution of Armenians in what is now eastern Turkey. It was those words that echoed through his head as...
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Mark and Mary Fortune
Mark and Mary Fortune both grew up in Ontario. They met in Manitoba where Mark would eventually make a name for himself as an astute real estate investor and a city counselor in Winnipeg. After a tour of Africa and...
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Bridget Delia Bradley
At the age of 18, Bridget Delia Bradley readied herself for a trip of a lifetime. She was leaving the family farm in Kingwilliamstown, Ireland. The Titanic was taking passengers aboard in Queenstown, Ireland. Bridget had a ticket in steerage...
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Arthur Peuchen
Arthur Peuchen was a married father of two from Toronto. The president of a chemical company, he was aboard the Titanic returning from a business trip in Europe. He boarded in Southampton on a first-class ticket. He knew many of...