HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA: Located 300 miles from the disaster site and because of the closeness, designated as the center for recovery.
An exhibit at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic has huge rivets and steel plates from the Titanic. In addition, it has first-hand accounts of seamen, ministers and undertakers involved in recovering bodies, id-ing them and preparing them for burial.
Unidentified bodies were buried in three local cemeteries.
The nondenominational Fairview Lawn Cemetery has 121 granite stones donated by White Star Line to mark their graves. Many of them just have the victim's id number and the words "Died April 15, 1912."
One stone in the cemetery is marked "J. Dawson," but is not the fictional one from the movie.
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