Cape Race Titanic Centennial Event

During the evening of April 14, 2012 the eyes of Titanic enthusiasts around the world will be on Cape Race, Newfoundland.  A century earlier Cape Race was the center of attention for Titanic’s passengers as almost wireless 300 messages were exchanged between ship and shore.   

Now, exactly one century later we will respectfully remember Titanic’s epic story and reflect upon how the events of 1912 went on to change the world.

At 5:30 p.m. there will be an ecumenical service at Holy Redeemer Church in Trepassey, the closest church to the gravesite.

At 7:00 p.m. enjoy the Flavours of Cape Race reception including a meal featuring the flavours enjoyed by citizens of the Cape Race region a century earlier.

This evening’s main commemorative event features international calibre guest speakers including Dr. Fred MacLaren - retired US Submaine commander who has been to Titanic, Bismark, and other deep ocean highlights.  Fred’s navigational exploits have made him the most recent winner of the Explorers Medal putting him in the company of Neil Armstrong and Sir Edmund Hillary.  (No Canadian has ever achieved this distinction but one Newfoundlander has.)

Throughout the night we will follow events as they unfolded a century earlier.  Jim Payne will perform and Ron Hynes will debut his new song commissioned to remember this tragedy from 1912.

Join us at Holy Redeemer Parish Auditorium:

Full event ticket: $79 plus tax

Email us at info@receivingtitanic.com to reserve your ticket!

  International Titanic Centennial Conference in St. John’s and Cape Race, NL, Canada will be the centennial service and commemoration at the actual Cape Race site.  Here conference participants, citizens of the Cape Race area, and a select number of admission paying folks will participate in a Remembrance Service that also features a minute by minute chronicling of the historic events at Cape Race and at Sea.  We expect to be communicating with vessels at sea floating over the Titanic Site using the best of 21^st century satellite technology and using a reproduction wireless system similar to that used in 1912.  

April 15:  The events off Cape Race during the night of April 14/15 went on to have a profound influence on the world.  We also expect our late night commemorative plans to require a day of relaxation as you readjust from Cape Race/Titanic Time to the more conventional time budgets most of us have to live with.   Today is at leisure.

April 16:  A century earlier – April 16, 1912, the Titanic’s survivors were steaming towards New York on board Carpathia.  Our Receiving Titanic Commemorative symposium ends today with your shuttle to St. John’s airport.

Register for the full Receiving Titanic Symposium by visiting Wildland Tours