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Reflections: Perth County connections to the Titanic's sinking
The president of the Grand Trunk Railway was among the victims of the infamous disaster
This postcard showing the “ill-fated S.S. Titanic” was donated to the Stratford-Perth Archives along with a set of family papers last year. Its careful preservation prompted curiosity about local reactions to that tragedy when it occurred in April 1912.
Beginning with search results from the archives’ newspaper database, one can see the Nov. 4, 1910, edition of the Atwood Bee included a brief international news report that the White Star trans-Atlantic ship, the Olympic, “the largest vessel in the world” had been launched. Among other details about that event, it was noted that her sister ship, the Titanic, was under construction.
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Much more attention was given to the Titanic’s launch followed by its shocking sinking about a year and a half later. The Monkton Times of April 19, 1912, described how “From the dawn of history, since men sailed the unplumbed . . . seas to the present time the records of sea disasters contain no parallel to the foundering of the Titanic bound from South Hampton to New York, the largest ship that ever sailed from port went down on Sunday morning in the treacherous Newfoundland Banks region after coming in contact with an iceberg. . . . The Titanic of the White Star Line was the last word in boat building and was making........