A Titanic exhibit has sailed into town, a display that hits home for one Strathmore man.
The basement of Ronald Howard's house is filled with military models and memorabilia -- but one corner is dedicated to the Titanic.
Items include a boarding pass, a white star liner's mug, and a menu from that fateful night almost 99 years ago.
Four of his relatives had tickets for a different ship, a voyage that was cancelled. Instead, they ended up on the Titanic.
"There was a coal strike at the time and they ended up cancelling their passage and the ticket agency ended up offering them first class tickets on the maiden voyage," Howard says.
Along with 2,219 others, Hudson Allison, his wife Bess and their two children boarded the doomed ship April 10, 1912.
The only family member to survive the trip was 11-month-old Hudson junior, brought to safety by the family's servants.
Howard is excited the Titanic exhibit has come to southern Alberta, adding even though it's almost a hundred years since the ship sunk, it's important that people don't forget the victims.
"I mean there's over 2,000 people on that ship and every one of them has a story. Every one of them," he says.
Howard holds tickets to the exhibit, Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, and hopes to take his wife and cousin.
He says he is hoping to learn even more about that night when almost one whole branch of his family tree was severed in one of last century's most memorable disasters.
The Titanic exhibit runs until June 27 at the Telus World of Science.
