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Remembering the Titanic Staterooms, fashions recreated in ‘Unsinkable’ exhibit By Jennifer Lang At twenty minutes to midnight, April 14, 1912 passengers aboard the Titanic felt a distinct and troubling bump. The disturbance felt like a train pulling into a station, according to one survivor, whose parents had the good sense to locate the nearest lifeboat and stay there. Billed as “unsinkable”, the grand ship – on her heralded maiden voyage – hit an iceberg in the unforgiving North Atlantic, allowing the sea to breach the watertight compartments that made her safe. Two hours and forty minutes later, she sank beneath the waves, claiming 1,503 lives. Within minutes the vessel lay broken in two nearly 4 km below on the ocean floor, lost but not forgotten until her rediscovery more than 70 years later. A new exhibit that opened this week at the Surrey Museum – in time for the 100th anniversary of the disaster – puts visitors aboard the Titanic in a way you might never have thought possible. Unsinkable: Remembering the Titanic, 1912-2012, is presented by the Surrey Mu-
seum, fashion historian Ivan Sayers and the Johnson GeoCentre of Newfoundland and Labrador April 10 to June 12. It seems the only thing grander and more superlative than the Titanic itself is the legend that surrounds her. A century later, the story still fascinates. For one thing, there was her sheer scale – 11 stories high, weighing more the 46,000 tons, she the largest passenger ship on the seas. Built at a shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, through the labours of 15,000 workers at a cost of $7.5 million, the Titanic was the world’s most luxurious ocean liner. First and third class (or “steerage”) accommodations on board the “Ship of Dreams” have been recreated for the exhibit, largely using materials from the museum’s collection, underscoring the rigid class divisions of the day as well as what it meant to travel in style. Second class on the Titanic matched first class on any other liner – the original “superelite” traveling class. First Class suites, within reach to only the wealthiest, boasted private promenades, two bedrooms, closets and pri-
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Frost Road Elementary Grade 7 students look at a recreated first-class cabin from the Titanic at the Surrey Museum. The students were completing exhibit work sheets for a class assignment.
vate washrooms. First Class amenities also featured Turkish baths and saunas, a well-appointed gymnasium with fitness instructors and sublime dining hall. Third class passengers – most about to start new lives in North America – were fortunate to enjoy electricity, heat, and running water in their considerably more spartan cabins, outfitted with bunk beds. Required by U.S. law, their quarters were separated by steel gates from the rest of the ship but their accommodations weren’t wholly lacking in amenities and amusing diversions, as visitors to the Surrey Museum will discover. Clothing assembled from the museum’s
and fashion historian Ivan Sayers’ collection is also featured, revealing what constituted proper cruise wear on transatlantic voyages in the early 20th century for both middleand upper-class passengers. Then there was the enormity of the tragedy: there weren’t enough lifeboats for all 2,200 passengers and crew. Whether it was denial about the seriousness of the situation – or incompetence – many lifeboats were lowered at less than full capacity. Just over 700 survived. Museum-goers can flip through a list of all the passengers and crew who were aboard. See PRINCE RUPERT/ Page 5
Geography whiz is ready for the challenge
Liam McLaughlin
By Jennifer Lang If you know Hazel in 1954 was Canada’s deadliest hurricane or that spruce accounts for 38 per cent of the tree species in the Boreal Shield and that Barbeau Peak is Ellesmere Island’s tallest mountain, you may be ready for the Great Canadian Geography Challenge. Liam McLaughlin of Clayton Heights Secondary certainly is.
Next Friday morning, the Grade 10 student’s knowledge of Canadian and world geography is going to be put to the test. Not to pressure the lad, but he’s one of just 51 students to qualify for the Great Canadian Geography Challenge National Finals April 19. The competition will be fierce, but his cheering section can take heart in knowing Liam, 15, is already a three-time school winner – and a provincial qualifier, proud accomplishments all. The online exam – taken under strict controls and supervision – could be a breeze for Liam, a kid who lives and breathes geography, according to CHS’s social studies department head Gary McLaughlin, who also happens to be
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Liam’s dad. “He loves it,” Gary said. “He can tell you the gross domestic product of almost any country in the world. He’s good at it.” McLaughlin senior has coached students participating in the geography challenge for at least 15 years. He’s had some very promising candidates in that time, but he’s clearly tickled by Liam’s prospects, even while admitting Liam is nearly entirely self-taught when it comes to his geography skills and interest. “He used to just eat atlases up. That’s what he does. That’s what he likes doing.” See KEEPING FOCUSED / Page 8
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