Working on it!
Well Marc and Tony and fellow members....my man seems to be out of town. As soon as I get a hold of him, I'll follow up with a report. I called Tony Cowling tonight, but he is out. His wife has been in the hospital since October or November and I haven't spoken with him since November. When I get a hold of him, I'm going to see how many books he has left and if he wants, I'll sell them on the forum. As I said earlier, I don't think you can buy them on line. But a fascinating book!
But till then....AND ON A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TOPIC.... not military related, but none the less....I was reading in the Globe and Mail Newspaper this week, that the 100th year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is this April. An auction is to be held in New York of 5000 artifacts they brought up from the wreck. The auction is for the whole lot and valued at just under 2 million dollars US.
One of my clients in Vancouver, who heads up a legal firm, had their offices repainted last year. That's what my company does here in Vancouver. While we were negotiating the project in his office, I couldn't help notice all the Maritime Bric a Brac in his office, including some great paintings of Ocean Liners. After business was completed, and we got the project, I quizzed him on the collection of Maritime artifacts in his office. He informed me that his grand father worked for the White Star Line in the early 1900's. As soon as he he said White Star Line....I said "The Titanic". And he responded "Yes". Turns out this gentleman's grandfather, while working for the White Star Line was based in New York at the time of the sinking, and was put in complete charge of the Survivors when they arrived in New York aboard that glorious ship....The Carpathia. I'm going to take him to lunch in the next few weeks and try and do an interview with him and hopefully set some thing up with Canadian Television.
His grandfather, after leaving the White Star Line, went on to work for the Guinness family and was the head engineer handling the the building of the Lions Gate Bridge from Vancouver to North Vancouver (The British Properties).
Funny the people you meet along the way in life.....Robert (Keep you posted)
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