The Museum in downtown Kitchener is playing host to a rare and engaging collection of Titanic artifacts until Jan 23rd. I highly reccomend making to effort to see it.
You'll find after receiving your boarding pass (of an actual passenger) an introduction to the mastery of the ship, the size and complexity of a vessel built without the help of computers, even calculators. You'll be introduced to the ships appointments, its dishware, staterooms and lessons on class and etiquette.
Then you meet an iceberg. You'll read stories of sacrafice, explanations of how it sank and picture the massive, unsinkable vessel sinking nose first with over 1,000 screaming souls climbing to it's stern facing their impeding death.
If you're anything like me, the romance of the Titanic will be fully restored. There are no shortage of stories to be told. Husbands and wives separated, lovers who died together, cowards who saved themselves.
See this for yourself, see if you live to tell the tale - I did. Then, rent A Night to Remember if you can find it - by far the best cinematic depiction of this mesmerizing story - yes, much better than Cameron's Titanic.