Mabel Fortune Driscoll

Mabel Helen Fortune Driscoll (November 3, 1888 - February 19, 1968) was a RMS Titanic passenger and survivor.
Biography
Mabel Helen Fortune was born on November 3, 1888, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of Mark Fortune, a wealthy real estate speculator and city councilor, and Mary McDougald.
At 23 years old, Fortune fell in love with a jazz musician, Harrison Archer Driscoll. The family decided to spend a long vacation in Europe hoping their daughter would forget the man. The marriage did not last and not long after Mabel Fortune went to live with another woman, a widow by the name of Charlotte Fraser Armstrong. Armstrong as well had a young son and lived in Ottawa. For the rest of her life Fortune lived with Armstrong in Victoria, British Columbia, in an house they bought. The house was designed by architect Francis Rattenbury and in the next 50 years, Fortune had it restored twice, first by Samuel Marcus and second by James & Savage, both times enlarging it to accommodate a swimming pool, maid's quarters, greenhouse, garages and chauffeur's quarters. Mabel Fortune Driscoll died on February 19, 1968, in Victoria, British Columbia, and is buried at Royal Oak Burial Park Cemetery.

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