Barry Ogden, Tom Lynskey, Joshua Thomson with Marco Polo replica. (submitted)
Filmmaker Tom Lynskey has shot a YouTube video about the link between Saint John and the famed White Star Line which built the RMS Titanic.
Joshua Thomson, a board member of the Titanic Society of Atlantic Canada, says White Star Line chartered huge clipper ships like Marco Polo before it was bought by Thomas Ismay, father of Bruce Ismay — an infamous survivor of the Titanic disaster.
Thomson says there are three Halifax cemeteries for Titanic victims with a New Brunswick connection to the gravestones.
“The rock that was used to make those actually came from New Brunswick, the quarry called the Old Charles Hanson Quarry is in Bocabec, in southwestern New Brunswick, and in 2017 the Titanic Society came here and we went on a field trip,” stated Thomson.
Saint John has a long and storied history of shipbuilding besides the famed Marco Polo.
“We were the fourth largest shipbuilding city in the world at one time and I think it is because of our port and the strategic position the Bay of Fundy also protects it from the Atlantic Ocean,” stated Thomson.
If you want to learn more, check out the video here.
