Titanic Graves 95th Anniversary Video & Pictures

Isaiah 11:6
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them."

Here is my simple unedited amateur home video with added pictures at the end and some Technicolor taken with my digital camera video setting. Nothing fancy, lots of jumpy and blurry. It is the Titanic Graves in Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada April 15th, 2007. I had to be quick as there was a tour bus due and I did not know how much filming time I had. I could not get all the names clearly on film. :(

I want to shout out to all the Titanic souls in Mount Olivet Cemetery and Baron de Hirsch Cemetery who did not make it on this video. And I want to point out also that most of the graves surrounding the Titanic ones are folks lost in the Halifax Explosion 5 years later, so many dead that the private cemetery was sold to the Province.

The wooden boardwalk you see was just temporary for the 95th Anniversary gathering and was removed while I was there. The graveyard was filmed and photographed as is, I never touched or propped a thing. The white flowered cross between the two Unknowns, made me cry.

This video is dedicated to all who perish at sea and to the two Stone crew members, Edmund J Stone and Edward Thomas Stone whose names were mixed up after the sinking and the wrong name was put on the grave and who just may be the two black birds you can see flying past me at 1:15 very quickly, the birds crossed right in front of me as I was thinking about the Stone crewmen. They both squawked twice ;)

To read more of my plight about the two Stone Crewmen go to this link. http://www.mysteriousnovascotia.com//titanicresearchstonebodies.htm

To see all of the Titanic Graves in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada go to this link.
http://www.mysteriousnovascotia.com//titaniclargegraves.html

To read about the Unknown Titanic Bodies that were exhumed for DNA testing in 2001 later identifying the Unknown Child (Sidney Leslie Goodwin) go to this link and read the amazing announcement that they identified the wrong child!
http://www.mysteriousnovascotia.com//bodiesexhumedindex.html

UPDATE... March 2008... I visited the Titanic Graves in October of 2007, 6 months after this video was shot and to my shock the large bush trees you see in the video were gone! Flowerbeds were there instead. The whole atmosphere of the places is different, not bad just different, after visiting steady for 9 years. I do believe those trees have been there for quite a while, but I will check. New photos of Fairview Lawn Cemetery can be seen at the Titanic Graves link above.

I also want to thank the people visiting the Titanic graves when I filmed this, for the kindness in allowing me to capture them. The man and woman in the wheelchairs are local folks who go and visit William Henry Harrison "the Secretary" they told me "is our favorite, he watches over the childes grave." And the two little girls were so interested in the graves, reading every name and asking questions in French. I asked the father if I could photograph his daughter looking at the Unknown Child and he smiled and asked her in French for which she smiled at me, turned and put her hands together. I thanked her very much and moved away, only to see her sit down. She stayed there for several minutes, in fact, until her father called her to come along.

UPDATE June 2008. Someone has made a beautiful video about the Unknown Child and used some of my pictures, I am so happy about this! Check it out!

Titanic the unknown child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8HOpOhofKE&feature=related

Here is a comment I received that made me weep.
A bucket list.
"Thanks a lot for the guided tour of the Titanic Graves ...always wanted to visit them ...but being so far away i cant ...now i can cross it off my list of things to do before i die !!"

Titanic Graves in Halifax on Google Earth.
44 39 33.73 N 63 37 22.77 W

I was asked who inspired me to do this film? I will have to say Titanic director James Cameron for the genius of his high budget perfection in filming and Trailer Park Boys director Mike Clattenburg for the genius of his low budget imperfection in filming.

"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets"
-Rose Dewitt Bukater

" I am the liquor"
-Jim Lahey

Thank you to everyone who has watched the almost 10 minute video and emailed their kind thoughts and rated the video. I am truly, truly humbled by the huge emotional response and the new Titanic connections I have made. This film was made with love, and boy has it ever come back to me! :)

Music by Master James Horner

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[robertm2000]

Can you tell me where this is? I didn't know that such a monument exists a fitting tribute to those who did not survive the sinking

[venus1112]

@robertm2000

These Titanic graves are located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. If you click on the 'more info' above it will drop down the data with other links. You can see where they are on Google Earth or Maps at this location.

44 39 33.73 N 63 37 22.77 W

[venus1112]

@venus1112 Sorry it is 'show more' above to get additional information. Thanks.

[motorguzzi100]

@venus1112 AND if you read the boos by author ROBIN GARDINER and his latest books you will open your eyes. IT was an assurance fraud that went wrong read the authors books especially latest JP MORGAN even took his possessions of titanic day before she sailed as did British government with their gold which was to pay for arms in usa for ww1 and the gold is still missing

[venus1112]

@motorguzzi100 Thanks, I will be sure to check it out! Be sure to search the internet for Titanic and The Federal Reserve Bank, some very interesting writings about that on the internet as well, probably all the same thing.

[venus1112]

On this 99th anniversary I will now allow comments, but those from Haters will be removed.

[HaligonianType1]

@robertm2000 Aye. It is Halifax. This graveyard is a 15 min walk from my place. =-}

[ncmountaingal1960]

We went to this cemetary on a trip several years ago and it is a sad place where so many innocent people are buried. An interesting note: The portion of the cemetary devoted to the Titanic victims is shaped like a ship and people are buried (according to our guide) in the approximate location where they were housed on The Titanic!

[BeinGoofy558]

2:25 it says J. Dawson. as in Jack Dawson. from the movie Titanic:)

[lawrence198169]

such a beautiful video. My heart goes out to those who lost their lives in this terrible tragedy. Thinking about the young children who died in the sinking brings a tear to my eye. Great job on the video

[kingcarcas1349]

I remember i had the soundtrack on cassette as a kid :(

[kyuubiblade141]

dude,this is soo sad how they died like that

[robertm2000]

Thank you for the information. This site is a shrine to those who are buried here, and I consider it also a memorial to those who perished and were never recovered, and the ship itself. "They are gone, but may they never be forgotten."

[PancakeisAmazing2]

Nevermind I saw:)