People on the Titanic - Titanic Exhibit by APlusDesign
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Mr. Quigg Edmond Baxter, young man of 24 became a star football and hockey player joining the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association at 17. He stared for the Montreal Shamrocks hockey team until he lost sight in one eye due to an opponent’s stick. He continued to help coach the team after that. Studying applied sciences at McGill University until dropping out to go with his mother and sister on a trip to Europe in 1912.
He fell in love with a Belgian cabaret singer, Berthe Mayné who he met in Brussels. He convinced her to come to Canada with him. Boarding the Titanic with him, his mother and sister unbeknownst to his father and under the assumed name Mme. DeVilliers for propriety.
When the Titanic began to sink, Baxter carried his mother up the Grand Staircase and made sure she, his sister and Mayné boarded Lifeboat 6 and asked his family to look after Mayne.
His body was never identified if it was ever even recovered.
Dr. Alfred Pain at 23, just was starting his medical career. He was also a fine athlete and a great musician. He met Miss Marion Wright on the Titanic and they became friends. Pain made sure she got a spot in the lifeboat. Miss Wright regretted not saying goodbye, saying at the time she thought like many others that they’d return to the Titanic before long. Pain died and his body was not recovered.
Mr. William Harbeck worked in film. He met a French model Henriette Yvois in Paris who travelled with him on the Titanic, posing as his wife. When they both died in the disaster, his real wife was first turned away as they thought his wife had died with him. But when they found the purse Mr. Harbeck was holding actually belonged to Miss Yvois, his real wife was able to bring him home. She made sure he was buried in an unmarked grave.
Mr. Harry Markland Molson, from a family who made a fortune from beer brewing, steamship building and banking. He was on return from a business ship on the Titanic.
In 1899 he swam to shore when the Scotsman sank, and in 1904 he also swam to safety when the ship Canada collided with a collier. He was planning to swim to some lights he saw off the port bow from the Titanic. His body was never recovered.
Major Arthur Peuchen was on his fortieth Atlantic crossing when he boarded the Titanic. When Lifeboat 6 was lowered with too few on board and when he announced he was a yachtsman the Second Officer encouraged him to slide the 25 feet down the rope and join them.
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