Fairview Cemetery
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Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a famous Canadian cemetery.
In addition to many of the city's business and cultural elite, at Halifax's Fairview Cemetery, 121 victims of the Titanic disaster are interred, several of whom have never been identified. Another 29 victims who were recovered are buried in Halifax and can be located at the Roman Catholic Mount Olivet Cemetery and the Jewish Baron de Hirsch Cemetery.
Notable Titanic victims buried at Fairview
One of the Titanic's notable figures, is John Law Hume. Known as "Jock", he was a violinist in the ship's orchestra. John's grave is like most of the Titanic graves at Fairview Cemetery. Besides his name, it only contains: Died April 15, 1912. 193 (The "193" was the number of John's body as assigned by the recovery ship which found him.)
One of the prominent headstones of the unidentified Titanic victims at Fairview is for an unidentified child found at the site of the wreck, and the only child for whom a body was recovered. As no one claimed the child, he was buried with funding from the sailors of the recovery ship which found him. The headstone bears the inscription 'Erected to the memory of an unknown child whose remains were recovered after the disaster to the "Titanic" April 15th 1912'. Ultimately, the identity of this child was determined in early November 2002 as thirteen month old Eino Viljami Panula of Finland, using DNA evidence. Eino, his mother, and four brothers all died in the Titanic disaster.
See also: List of other famous cemeteries