Yesterday, three items went to auction from passengers who fled the sinking R.M.S. Titanic on Lifeboat No. 1. They are a letter, a ticket from the ship’s Turkish baths, and a menu from the last lunch served on the ship. The ticket and menu were carried away on the lifeboat that night, and the letter was written six months later.
You can read more about the items and their owners and see photos in the National Geographic article.
Halifax and Montreal have the greatest number of Titanic-related graves. Among the Montrealers who died were Harry Markland Molson, the richest Canadian aboard the ship, and Charles Melville Hays, the president of Grand Truck Railway. The Montreal Gazette was the first newspaper in the world to learn of the disaster. I suspect all of our ancestors, wherever they lived, were talking about its sinking for many days.
