Born in Syria in 1867; emigrated to Ottawa circa 1907.
Was a green grocer, and by all accounts a sharp businesswoman who sold produce to the carriage trade in the Canadian capital. In 1912, she travelled back to Syria to visit the two sons she had left behind when she first came to Canada.
After a family visit, she was returning aboard Titanic with a group of family members; she held third class ticket number 2696, £7 4s 6d.
She survived the sinking of the Titanic, probably in Collapsible C, and travelled on to her nephew David Shaheen, who lived at 150 Broad Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
Her first person account of the disaster appeared the in the Ottawa Citizen which can be found at :
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/syrian-womans-thrilling-narrative.html
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org
www.ottawacitizen.com
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