Author Archives: John G. Langley

The activities of this Society, much like everyone’s lifestyle and movements were severely curtailed with first the arrival of COVID, and then its prolonged effects which are still being felt today in the form of different variants of the virus. … Continue reading →

In September of 2024 arrangements were concluded with the Public Archives of Nova Scotia to transfer fifty years of accumulated Cunard research materials from the CSS Chairman’s personal collection into what now will form ‘the Langley fond’ at PANS. During … Continue reading →

Following years of great anticipation, Cunard’s fourth ship and another Royal Monarch, Queen Anne joined the fleet in January and began service with three inaugural cruises in May, the second of which was a fourteen day ‘British Festival Voyage’ – … Continue reading →

CUNARD FOUNDER ASSUMES A GREATER PRESENCE ABOARD FLAGSHIP Cunard’s QM2 resumed normal service with a World Cruise in 2023. Just prior to departing Southampton arrangements between Cunard and the Society culminated in the placement of an eight- foot portrait of … Continue reading →

Each year since 2015 Cunard Line in conjunction with the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and the Canadian Maritime Heritage Foundation has hosted an event aboard Queen Mary 2 in Halifax, the ‘ancestral home’ of the company to honour its … Continue reading →

2019 marked the culmination of arrangements between Cunard Line and John G. Langley, Q.C., Chairman of the Cunard Steamship Society for the gifting of a large collection of paper ephemera from the Langley collection to Cunard Line for archiving at … Continue reading →

The flagship Queen Mary 2 was the setting in Halifax, Nova Scotia where a large group of dignitaries and invited guests gathered to celebrate the entrepreneurial genius of company founder and Haligonian, Samuel Cunard. The honouree for this year’s Samuel … Continue reading →

July 26, 2019 was a special day in Halifax, the ancestral home of Cunard Line. Here, for the first time two Cunard Queens – the flagship Queen Mary 2 and the Queen Elizabeth – met and berthed end to end … Continue reading →