Titanic Ship History

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The history behind the Titanic is fascinating. It's the people, not the engineering or business ethics, that make the history intriguing.

We arrived at the cemetery early, and were the only ones there. We'd seen real Titanic pictures at the museam in Halifax the day before.

Here we were to visit the final resting places of many of those people who'd previously only seemed like names on the Titanic passenger list. In the museum, and in this Fairlawn Cemetery, they were much more real than that. Their humanity became real to us.

In the foreground of graves08.jpg is a grave in memory of the unidentified child they'd found after the Titanic disaster. The child was a male, approximately two years old.

In the same photo, to the right, is the grave of Alma Paulson, who was sailing 3rd class to meet her husband in Chicago. She was bringing with her their four children, to start their lives anew in the United States.

Years later experts are concluding that the unknown child they found and buried 5 feet from Alma Paulson was likely her 2 year old son Gosta.

Is this the gravesite of Jack Dawson from the Movie Titanic? If it was, would you think the choice of flowers should be 'Roses' (*groan*).

William Denton Cox is not buried in this grave. Actually, it was a fella who'd kidnapped his kids from his ex-wife and was trying to get to America with them. He'd registered under a false name (Cox), and perished during the sinking. He was buried under his registered name. His children did survive and were reunited with their mother.

Being from Cedar Rapids, it was interesting to learn that a local couple, the Douglases (at the time owners of Brucemore Mansion) were aboard the Titanic. Mr. Douglas perished, but Mrs. Douglas survived. Mr. Douglas is not buried in Halifax, but was sent back to the US. I don't know whether he's buried in Cedar Rapids, or not.

End of vacation photos. We got to our flight on time in Halifax, made our harried connection in Boston (only to sit on the tarmac for 2 hours on the plance....NEVER fly through Boston), and missed our subsequent connection in Chicago. American Airlines put us up for the night in Chicago at some hotel that was closer to Midway than O'Hare, and I missed work the next day. This time, it was American Airlines, not Continental. grrrrr.

The photos remind me that it was a great vacation, despite what the Airlines did/didn't do.

Next time I think we're going to vacation someplace we can drive.

Of course driving here would've fatigued us and lessened our ability to absorb Titanic Titanic history.

This page is the last of our Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island photographs. We hope you've enjoyed our recollection of our visit.

If you found the end of our trip, before you saw the pictures of the beginning of our trip, click HERE for Tiverton Whale Watching for our first day's adventures.