Fairview Cemetery- Halifax Nova Scotia- Titanic Cemetery

As I mentioned in my previous post, we bought tickets for an excursion to visit Peggy's Cove, and Fairview Cemetery in Halifax.  With a tour group that spent a lot of time at Peggy's Cove, and with a cruise ship that required everyone back at the ship at a specific time, our time here was very limited.  In fact, our tour guide announced as we got off the bus, that we had maybe 15 minutes to spend here.


This is one of the drawbacks of excursions, and doing things on a cruise.  Time can really become limited.

And, this was probably the main attraction for me, on the entire cruise, we LOVE visiting places associated with the Titanic.

BUT, we were able to see all of the main stones that we hoped to see.  We were able to take the place in, get some photos, and say we were there.  I would have liked more time, but I can check it off of my list.

There were MANY other tour groups and tourists here.  This may be one of the biggest attractions in the province.

One of the most well known monuments is to the formerly unknown child on the ship.  The small body went unclaimed, and unknown for decades.  HOWEVER, in the 2000s, the child was positively identified through forensic testing.

The J. Dawson marker became very popular after the release of the 1990s film about the boat.  Leonardo DiCaprio's character was named Jack Dawson.... and many people assumed that J. Dawson was the inspiration.

There were a couple of other stones we hunted down......  We DID get to see all we really wanted here, so...  even on a time limit, we were happy.

We got back to our ship and settled in for the evening.  A bagpiper actually played us off as our ship left Halifax!  VERY COOL!

That evening on the ship, we saw a great Second City performance.  They acted out a lot of skits, many of which were wittily acted out quick scene jokes which were set up then punch lines.  They did improvise a song about a member of the audience wanting to be a farmer when they grew up.  It was a solid hour of laughs and I think the entire audience loved it!