President of Grand Trunk Railway. Died April 15 1912 on the Titanic. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qcmtl-w/HaysCharlesMelville.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Melville_Hays http://www.vancouversun.com/Railway+titan+among+Titanic+victims/6425047/story.html http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/charles-melville-hays.html
Sarnia Daily Observer April16 1912 SARNIA MAN MAY BE TITANIC PASSENGER Jas. M. McCrie was en route home from Egypt. Wrote home announcig intention to sail on Titanic. There is just a possibility that a Sarnia man in the persons of James M. McCrie, oil operator North Christina street,may be one of the passengers on [...]
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The Sarnia Daily Observer April 16, 1912 1,234 UNACCOUNTED FOR OF PASSENGERS ON GREAT TITANIC Captain and Crew thought to have gone with Ship; Survivors to reach New York Thursday Special telegram to Observer Montreal, April 16 — While telegram to White Star Office from New York says: G.T.R. President C.M. Hayes is among survivors [...]
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Sarnia Daily Observer April15 1912 TITANIC IN DANGER Virginian Hastens to Aid of Big White Star Liner COLLIDED WITH ICEBERG While Making Her Trip From Southampton to New York The New Marine Monster Fouls Floating Ice and Her 1,308 Passengers Are In Danger — Virginian Can Accommodate 900 More. Montreal April 15 – The Allan Line [...]
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The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser July 20, 1854 It is our painful duty to record another of those dreadful accidents which, in connetion with railways, are generally so destructive to human life when they do happen. The Express Train on the Great Western Railway, on it’s westward course on Thursday night last about 11 [...]
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Model Train web page ” Custom Model Building Services For Model Railroaders Everywhere” added to links. http://elgincarshops.com/
Added Palmerston Heritage Museum to Links section. http://www.palmerstonrailwaymuseum.com/
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser June 15, 1854 Ten thousand emigrants arrived at Quebec in one week! The fact almost startles us, until we have gleaned the additional intelligence, that large numbers of them are bound to the Western States of the neighbouring Union; and that the German and other immigrants who seek a [...]
The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser June 15, 1854 Some idea may be formed of the rapid increase of travel in the Upper Province of Canada, by reading the following remarks of the Rev. Dr. Duff, in a late address at Toronto: ” I had an exemplification furnished me the other day of what this [...]
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