Colley was a mining broker in Victoria, BC. A surprisingly large number of First Class passengers came from Winnipeg – Thomson Beattie, Mr. Toronto passengers included Major Arthur Godfrey Peuchen and J.J. Allison and family, the Baxters and the Davidsons. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Railway and resident of Montréal from 1896, Harry M.

Passengers from Montreal included American-born Charles M. Among the First Class passengers were citizens from Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. Both Alan Hustak in 1998, and Lanny Boutin in 2006, have made important contributions in documenting these individuals, whose importance extends beyond the history of the Titanic to add detail and dimension to Canada’s growing national and international importance in the early years of the 20 th century, while Michael Dupuis has provided important details concerning connections between the Titanic passengers and the province of Manitoba. Among the Titanic ’s passengers were Canadian citizens returning to Canada, visitors to Canada, and immigrants seeking to settle in Canada and build new lives for themselves. In 1912, the Titanic seemed to represent the greatest triumph of modern science and technology over the world of nature, the perfect realization of the grandest aspirations of the Industrial Revolution, which had brought so much of the world into an age of mass production in the great stages of maturation of the Machine Age during the first decades of the 20 th century. Until the fatal 11:40pm collision with an iceberg on the night of 14 April, 1912, the Titanic was also regarded as the safest – believed by many to be unsinkable. Keewatin - Steel & Steam The RMS Titanic – and the linage of the SS Keewatin At the time of its sinking, the Titanic was the newest, largest, most luxurious passenger liner on the Atlantic.

Titanic by Alan Hustak