In December of 2011 the sale of this portrait of the Rice family portrait took place in the Berkeley Court Hotel, Dublin, on December 14.
Although time has elapsed since the mighty Titanic on her maiden voyage plunged to the bottom of the sea after a collision with an iceberg, the world has not ceased to shudder at the many tragedies of the disaster. About sixteen hundred lost their lives on that occasion and the proudest work of the shipbuilder was rendered a mockery when in combat with the worst perils of the ocean.
On December 18th Chris Redmond posted:
Maybe this is old news to everybody except me ( no, me too said Linda)… but I learned today that one of the victims of the Titanic disaster in 1912 was born in Carleton Place. Master Eric Rice was born at Carleton Place, Ontario on 24 August 1905 and later…
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