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Remembering the Titanic
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Surrey Museum marks the 100th anniversary of the demise of the ‘unsinkable’ grand ship by Jennifer Lang
A
t 20 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
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The Titanic departs England on her maiden voyage across the North Atlantic April 10, 1912. The ship sank two days later after colliding with an iceberg.
Atlantic, allowing the sea to breach the watertight compartments that made her safe. Two hours and 40 minutes later, she sank beneath the waves, claiming 1,503 lives. Within minutes, the vessel lay broken in two nearly four kilometres 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 Museum, fashion historian Ivan Sayers and the Johnson GeoCentre of Newfoundland and Labrador. The exhibit runs until June 12. See MUSEUM / Page 40
Transit fare hikes scrapped The hunt for TransLink savings intensifies by Jeff Nagel TRANSLINK COMMISSIONER Martin Crilly has vetoed a steep transit fare increase next year, ordering TransLink officials to instead carve waste from the transportation authority. It’s good news for passengers,
who overwhelmingly opposed the fare hikes. But the decision knocks $40 to $60 million out of TransLink’s assumed revenues over the next three years and increases the odds of a $23 property tax hike per average home next year to cover commitments to expand transit service.
Premier Christy Clark had already rejected area mayors’ call for a vehicle levy – or any other new short-term funding source – to avoid the need for the extra $30 million from the property tax hike, instead vowing an audit will find savings. See CRILLY / Page 10
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Cuts to service will not be needed to find savings at TransLink, Commissioner Martin Crilly says.
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