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| Titanic Link To Elgin County Past |
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| Monday, 11 June 2007 | |
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Henry W. McAdam who was born in St. Thomas in 1881. He married a Olive M. Sjostedt. Her father Ernst Adolf Sjostedt was a Swedish mining engineer whom emigrated to USA in 1878, moved to Nova Scotia about 1890, then came to Sault Ste. Maire, Ontario in 1904. He died in the sinking of the Titanic. Her father's body was never recovered. Henry's father Joseph is buried in West Ave. Cemetery, St. Thomas, Ontario. See the story of the Titanic at: Wikipedia Encyclopedia As to the details of how the two met I don't have those details yet, but the couple were living in Hamilton, Ontario, prior to Ernest's death. .McAdam Connection to 1919 Nickle Resolution One of Joseph's daughters, Agnes M. McAdam also married another fairly well known, William Folger Nickle, lawyer and MP for Kingston. Nickle was famous in his time for trying to push through legislation to ban the peerage being bestowed on Canadians. It was passed by the House of Commons on May 22, 1919, that His Majesty (George V) henceforth "refrain from conferring any title of honour or titular distinction upon any of your subjects domiciled or ordinarily resident in Canada." Nickle's second wife was the daughter of the principal of Queen's University, Rev. Robert Bruce Taylor.This is what Nickle's fuss was all about, that his father in-law had applied for knighthood from the British Empire and was refused this status. Other Sources:              |
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