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“The Greatest Marine Disaster in History”

How Torontonians learned about the Titanic disaster a century ago.

H.G. Thorley had little inkling that he would be the busiest man in Toronto on April 15, 1912. Just before 2 a.m. that morning, the local agent for White Star Line received a phone call requesting information on the condition of the luxury liner Titanic, rumoured to have hit an iceberg on its maiden journey [...]

You Know You’re Rice

There was a movie that played at Hot Docs called Reporter. It was about Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times columnist who globetrots to the sites of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters in an effort to provide original reporting that will draw attention to crises of which very few people are aware. Most interestingly, Kristof [...]

Toronto Proud Of Link With Great Maritime Tragedy

Who knew there was a connection between the TTC and the Titanic, and not just that both are often associated with the words “transportation” and “disaster” (ba-dum-bum)? An exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre features four Toronto streetcar tickets salvaged from the world’s most famous shipwreck by a 1987 expedition. The tickets are believed to [...]