Friday, April 13, 2012

Titanic Cemetery for Burial of Titanic Dead

Of all the dead from the Titanic, 169 of them are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  121 of those are in Fairview Lawn Cemetery, a non-denominational cemetery run by the Parks Department of the Halifax Regional Municipality.  The graves form the design of a ship's bow.
Of 2,223 passengers 1,517 died, and most of those were behind a locked gate in third class.  Hundreds if not thousands of families were destroyed and devastated.  Of 899 crew members, 685 of them died.

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