The crowd at Peggy's Cove
A clear warning!
Let's just check it out anyway! There is always someone! On the rocks of death!
St. Margaret's Bay. Named for explorer Champlain's mother.
View from behind the buses is very peaceful.
Most photographed lighthouse in Canada!
Circling the parkiing lot hoping to find a place to park to walk and enjoy nature!
Sculptor and artist deGarthe's personal home memorializes young Peggy's tragedy.
Next stop is Fairlawn Cemetery. Most famous of the Titanic burial sites.
Visitors respectfully visit the small, almost neighborhood, cemetery every day. Most every tour of Halifax stops here. Ours was the last bus of the day so we had a little extra time and returned to the ship just as the horn blew a last warning.
The first row of graves is very straight, like a hallway in the middle of a ship while the next rows "accidentally" curve outwards, like the bow of a ship.
Said to have inspired the name of Cameron's hero. This passenger was, indeed, not on the manifest but identified by papers foundin his personal effects.
This third person recovered took many years to identify.
The most recent identity was named in 2002, a 13 month old little boy Eino Viljami Panula.
This girl was finally identified but the family chose to let her rest in peace. Notice the childish trinkets left by emotional visitors.
Our guide Margaret explained who people were and showed pictures if she had them. Notice that this grave was erected by the man many blamed for the fatal voyage, owner Ismay. He erected stones for each of his employees who was identified.
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