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Titanic graves draw crowds in Halifax as film boosts tourism
Halifax burial sites for Titanic victims attract growing crowds amid Hollywood Titanic mania. The Mackay Bennett and two other ships recovered 328 bodies, with 121 graves at Fairview Cemetery. The Maritime Museum display includes a deck fragment and logs, boosting February visitor numbers.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Mackay- Bennett
Atlantic
Mackay-Bennett
Arminius Wiseman
Dan Conlin
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Rink
Fairview Cemetery
Italo Donati
Gustaff Johannson
Everett Edward Elliott
J. Dawson
Conlin
James Dawson
Jack Dawson
Leonardo DiCaprio
Titanic
John Jacob Astor
Newfoundland
Robert Hunston
Cape Race
Gerry Lunn
Fairview