He survived the sinking of Titanic.
Contributed by Jerry Martinez:
While this sounds fortunate, in his life Albert endured rumors and shame about how he made it onto a lifeboat, when the custom was "women and children first." He immortalized the collective shame of Calgary residents after his death by choosing the placement of his marker to be oriented such that the lettering was upside-down in relation to the other markers in the cemetery. The city had turned their backs to him in life, and he chose to figuratively turn his back on the city in his death. Later, some people were buried in nearby graves with markers oriented similarly, to make the deliberate affront less obvious. For a more complete bio, see http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/albert-adrian-dick.html.
Contributed by Jerry Martinez:
While this sounds fortunate, in his life Albert endured rumors and shame about how he made it onto a lifeboat, when the custom was "women and children first." He immortalized the collective shame of Calgary residents after his death by choosing the placement of his marker to be oriented such that the lettering was upside-down in relation to the other markers in the cemetery. The city had turned their backs to him in life, and he chose to figuratively turn his back on the city in his death. Later, some people were buried in nearby graves with markers oriented similarly, to make the deliberate affront less obvious. For a more complete bio, see http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/albert-adrian-dick.html.
He survived the sinking of Titanic.
Contributed by Jerry Martinez:
While this sounds fortunate, in his life Albert endured rumors and shame about how he made it onto a lifeboat, when the custom was "women and children first." He immortalized the collective shame of Calgary residents after his death by choosing the placement of his marker to be oriented such that the lettering was upside-down in relation to the other markers in the cemetery. The city had turned their backs to him in life, and he chose to figuratively turn his back on the city in his death. Later, some people were buried in nearby graves with markers oriented similarly, to make the deliberate affront less obvious. For a more complete bio, see http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/albert-adrian-dick.html.
Contributed by Jerry Martinez:
While this sounds fortunate, in his life Albert endured rumors and shame about how he made it onto a lifeboat, when the custom was "women and children first." He immortalized the collective shame of Calgary residents after his death by choosing the placement of his marker to be oriented such that the lettering was upside-down in relation to the other markers in the cemetery. The city had turned their backs to him in life, and he chose to figuratively turn his back on the city in his death. Later, some people were buried in nearby graves with markers oriented similarly, to make the deliberate affront less obvious. For a more complete bio, see http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/albert-adrian-dick.html.
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DICK
ALBERT A, VERA T.
1880-1970, 1894-1973.
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Cremated.
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