ANDZREJ KRAUZE
On a trip to her father’s childhood home in Chesterville, Ontario, in May 2012, forensic scientist Tracy Oost of Laurentian University jumped at the chance to visit an old farmstead formerly owned by the Allison family, which lost three members in the RMS Titanic catastrophe. Oost had long been fascinated by the story of the “unsinkable” ship and, in particular, the research that followed its sinking. “Really, it’s the first mass disaster that was ever investigated to the depth that we investigate mass disasters now,” says Oost, who in 2001 oversaw the exhumation of graves at a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to identify Titanic victims believed to be buried there.
For many years, the Allison family has been considered one of the lingering mysteries ...
