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Murphy, Gavin. Titanic Victim Charles Melville Hays: The Man Who Built Ottawas Chateau Laurier Hotel. 1st printing, SIGNED by the author. Ottawa: Nepean Museum. September, 2000. wraps. booklet. isbn: none. scarcity: hard to find.
Listed on the museum website merely as Titanic booklet, this 20 page softcover work is a brief biography of Titanic victim Charles Melville Hays; and his building of the Chateru Laurier Hotel in Ottawa. Hays was travelling home to officially open the hotel when he lost his life in the disaster.
This oversized, slender booklet is photo illustrated through-out, apparently with many never before seen photographs. It is being sold by the Nepean Museum, Ottawa as a fundraiser for the museum.
For some further information about this book, see the Calendar page for the Nepean Museum; under the link 'Nepean Museum Releases Titanic Booklet'.
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