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Hugh Brewster writes of "A trio of Canadian bachelors who were known as 'the Three Musketeers' " -- Thomson Beattie, Thomas McCaffry, and John Hugo Ross. "Ross and Beattie were both successful real estate agents in Winnipeg, Manitoba, than a boomtown with Canada's largest per capital population of millionaires. To escape the fierce prairie winters, Beattie and his close friend McCaffrey, a Vancouver banker, were in the habit of boarding liners for destinations like North Africa or the Aegean. This year [1912] they had been joined by Ross, another dapper, witty bachelor, and the three men had departed from New York in January bound for Trieste and a three-month tour of Italy, Egypt, France, and England. . . . Beattie and McCaffry, whom the ''Winnipeg Free Post'' would describe as 'almost inseparable,' shared cabin C-6. . . ."<ref>Brewster, ''Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World'' (Crown, March 27, 2012, ISBN-10: 0307984702, ISBN-13: 978-0307984708), pages 53-54.</ref> | Hugh Brewster writes of "A trio of Canadian bachelors who were known as 'the Three Musketeers' " -- Thomson Beattie, Thomas McCaffry, and John Hugo Ross. "Ross and Beattie were both successful real estate agents in Winnipeg, Manitoba, than a boomtown with Canada's largest per capital population of millionaires. To escape the fierce prairie winters, Beattie and his close friend McCaffrey, a Vancouver banker, were in the habit of boarding liners for destinations like North Africa or the Aegean. This year [1912] they had been joined by Ross, another dapper, witty bachelor, and the three men had departed from New York in January bound for Trieste and a three-month tour of Italy, Egypt, France, and England. . . . Beattie and McCaffry, whom the ''Winnipeg Free Post'' would describe as 'almost inseparable,' shared cabin C-6. . . ."<ref>Brewster, ''Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World'' (Crown, March 27, 2012, ISBN-10: 0307984702, ISBN-13: 978-0307984708), pages 53-54.</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 09:23, 19 April 2012
Hugh Brewster writes of "A trio of Canadian bachelors who were known as 'the Three Musketeers' " -- Thomson Beattie, Thomas McCaffry, and John Hugo Ross. "Ross and Beattie were both successful real estate agents in Winnipeg, Manitoba, than a boomtown with Canada's largest per capital population of millionaires. To escape the fierce prairie winters, Beattie and his close friend McCaffrey, a Vancouver banker, were in the habit of boarding liners for destinations like North Africa or the Aegean. This year [1912] they had been joined by Ross, another dapper, witty bachelor, and the three men had departed from New York in January bound for Trieste and a three-month tour of Italy, Egypt, France, and England. . . . Beattie and McCaffry, whom the Winnipeg Free Post would describe as 'almost inseparable,' shared cabin C-6. . . ."[1]
Notes
- ↑ Brewster, Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World (Crown, March 27, 2012, ISBN-10: 0307984702, ISBN-13: 978-0307984708), pages 53-54.
