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41-700: Fairview Cemetery may refer to: Canada [ edit ] Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Fairview Cemetery, Niagara Falls United States [ edit ] Fairview Cemetery (Van Buren, Arkansas) , listed on the NRHP in Arkansas Fairview Cemetery, Confederate Section , Van Buren, Arkansas Fairview Cemetery (Colorado Springs, Colorado) in El Paso County, Colorado Fairview Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts) , listed on

82-622: A coal trimmer . The Fairview Titanic graves also include the burial place and marker of William Denton Cox , a heroic steward who died while escorting third class passengers to the lifeboats. Six of the previously unknown Titanic victims were identified in 1991 with the help of the Titanic International Society . Newly-inscribed headstones bearing their names were unveiled on September 23, 1991, at ceremonies attended by then-Halifax Mayor Ronald Wallace , Titanic survivor Louise Pope , and more than 50 members of

123-468: A Dalhousie University study, this had "no positive impact on the vitality of the Gottingen Street commercial district". Agricola Street, which runs parallel to Gottingen Street, is a commercial district home to many local galleries, restaurants, and shops. It has also benefited from new residential developments that have increased the local population. Businesses of The Hydrostone serve as

164-528: A dark sedimentary shale known as ironstone . The entire peninsula has no significant surface water, unlike the areas northeast and southwest of Halifax Harbour (the Eastern Shore and South Shore respectively). At 60 m (200 ft) in elevation, Citadel Hill is the highest point on the peninsula and when combined with the expansive undeveloped parkland of the North Common , creates

205-569: A large middle-class African Canadian population, while lower-income families lived nearby in Uniacke Square. Many of the black home owners operated businesses, or were working professionals. The North End has long been seen as a center of commerce, education, entertainment, and religion among African Nova Scotians . However, uncontrolled gentrification of the North End has changed the area's demographics considerably. In recent years,

246-522: A new street grid was superimposed over the old street patterns. New residential construction saw the creation of the Hydrostone neighbourhood, built during the relief construction following the disaster. Today the memorial bells at Fort Needham, which were recovered from a church that didn't survive the event, may be heard in the carillon and monument to the disaster. The Memorial was designed by Nova Scotia architect Keith L. Graham. The Halifax Shipyard

287-528: A physical boundary that separates the various neighbourhoods. Fort Needham is another glacial drumlin located in the heart of the North End. The neighbourhood referred to as the North End by Halifax residents was bounded by the north of the Bedford Basin , and on the east by The Narrows of Halifax Harbour . Its other boundaries as not as sharply defined, but the western limit of the neighbourhood

328-505: A result, the proportion of Black residents in the neighbourhood has fallen from 30% in 2006 to 15% in 2016. In 1966, the Halifax North Memorial Public Library was opened in memory of the victims of the explosion. Located on at 2285 Gottingen Street, the library offers a welcoming environment as well as programs that strongly reflect the diverse make-up of the community. By the end of the 19th century,

369-468: A third of the graves, however, have never been identified and their markers contain just the date of death and marker number. Surveyor E. W. Christie laid out three long lines of graves in gentle curves following the contours of the sloping site. By co-incidence, the curved shape suggests the outline of the bow of a ship. A complete listing of those victims buried in Fairview can be found here . One of

410-489: Is generally agreed to be Windsor street. The southern boundary was, traditionally, the northern limit of the original settlement of Halifax along the slope of Citadel Hill (now Cogswell Street), and continuing along the northern edge of the North Common to Quinpool Road. The northern boundary has steadily migrated toward the Bedford Basin since Halifax's founding. The boundary originally ended at North Street, just as

451-633: Is located in the North End of Halifax at the Northern End of Windsor Street. It is bordered by the Saint John Anglican cemetery on one side and the Baron de Hirsch Cemetery on another. A blockhouse was built at the site in the 1750s to protect Halifax from attacks by the Mi'kmaq people . The land was subsequently developed as small farms. In 1893, the land was acquired by a private company,

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492-648: The Canadian Forces Exchange System , the curling club, the Military Police , and the Military Family Resource Centre. The Gottingen Street area population declined from high of 11,939 people in 1951, to a low of 4,494 people in 1996. However, in recent years the trend has reversed as more housing is built in the area and as vacant lots have been developed. The population has risen substantially since

533-680: The South End ended at South Street. A neighbourhood further to the north was Richmond , and was located on the eastern slope of Fort Needham. Further north of Richmond, at the end of the Campbell Road, was the former community of Africville . There are arenas, community-centres, libraries, parks, public pools, and trails within the North End of Halifax. Arenas Community centres Community YMCA Libraries Parks Public pools Trails The areas of Creighton Street, Gottingen Street, and Maynard Street were traditionally home to

574-410: The 1996 Census, resulting in an ever-more diverse neighbourhood. Gottingen Street is the commercial and entertainment heart of the North End, and is home to numerous shops, bars, clubs, and performance venues. In 1950, the four blocks of Gottingen closest to downtown were the site of more than 130 enterprises, including two cinemas. The street declined in stature as the peninsula lost population during

615-532: The 20th century, Gottingen Street was the epicenter for black business and enterprise in Nova Scotia, including being home to a beauty shop and school owned by Viola Desmond . The North End housed one of the first Afrocentric schools in Canada, St. Patrick's-Alexandra School (closed in 2011). A neighbourhood with strong African Nova Scotian roots, the area has undergone gentrification in recent years. As

656-469: The City Council of Halifax voted to relocate the residents of the community. The municipal government justified the destruction of Africville by citing the poor living conditions of the community, despite having historically refused to extend those services to the community. The community was torn down in the 1960s preceding a proposed urban redevelopment of the region which would see new highways and

697-642: The Fairview Lawn Cemetery Limited, for a non-denominational cemetery because the Camp Hill Cemetery in the centre of the city was running out of room. The city of Halifax took over the cemetery in 1944. Fairview contains a cross section of Halifax's 20th century residents including a Greek section and a Chinese section as well as a mass grave of victims from the Halifax Explosion and many other graves. Fairview

738-1065: The NRHP in Massachusetts Fairview Cemetery (Dalton, Massachusetts) , listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts Fairview Cemetery (Westford, Massachusetts) , listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts Fairview Cemetery (Gallatin County, Montana) in Gallatin County, Montana Fairview Cemetery (Flathead County, Montana) in Flathead County, Montana Fairview Cemetery (Broadwater County, Montana) in Broadwater County, Montana Fairview Cemetery (Daniels County, Montana) in Daniels County, Montana Fairview Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey) Fairview Cemetery (Westfield, New Jersey) Fairview Cemetery (Santa Fe, New Mexico) , listed on

779-680: The NRHP in New Mexico Fairview Cemetery (Wahpeton, North Dakota) Fairview Cemetery (Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania) Fairview Cemetery (Culpeper, Virginia) , listed on the NRHP in Virginia Fairview Cemetery (Linden, Michigan) in Linden, Michigan Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fairview Cemetery . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

820-605: The North End Community Gardening Association, Anchor Archive Zine Library, North By North End, and the Nova Scotia Youth Project. Plans are now under way for the redevelopment of Bloomfield Centre. The Halifax Armoury , on North Park Street, is a National Historic Site . The massive Romanesque Revival building resembles an old castle, but it boasted numerous technological innovations when it opened in 1899, including

861-523: The North End has become a popular destination for Halifax's growing university population. As the prices of apartments closer to Dalhousie University and Saint Mary's University continue to rise, and as the cost of transportation has fallen due to the introduction of the U-pass , students are finding cheaper accommodations in the North End. This has spawned a thriving artistic community, with many musicians, painters, and writers lured to this neighbourhood, at

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902-699: The Society. Twenty-nine other Titanic victims are buried elsewhere in Halifax; nineteen in the Roman Catholic Mount Olivet Cemetery and ten in the Jewish Baron de Hirsch Cemetery . The cemetery also contains 29 war graves of Commonwealth service personnel, 20 from World War I and 9 from World War II. North End, Halifax The North End of Halifax is a neighbourhood of Halifax , Nova Scotia occupying

943-548: The adoption of electricity and the truss structure that permitted a large interior space with no columns or walls. HMCS Stadacona is home to numerous other historic military buildings. The North End is also home to the Halifax Shipyard , sited just to the north of HMC Dockyard. Founded in 1889, the shipyard has built many vessels for the Royal Canadian Navy and is the largest full-service shipyard on

984-433: The better-known Titanic markers is for an unidentified child victim, known for decades as The Unknown Child . No one claimed the body, so he was buried with funds provided by sailors of CS  Mackay-Bennett , the cable ship that recovered his body. The marker bears the inscription 'Erected to the memory of an unknown child whose remains were recovered after the disaster of the "Titanic" April 15, 1912'. In November 2002,

1025-476: The child was initially identified as 13-month-old Eino Viljami Panula of Finland. Eino, his mother, and four brothers all died in the Titanic disaster. After additional forensic testing, the unknown child was re-identified as 19-month-old Sidney Leslie Goodwin , an English child who perished with his entire family. A grave marked "J. Dawson" gained fame following the release of the 1997 film Titanic , since

1066-452: The construction of the A. Murray MacKay Bridge , although the lands of the community were never used in a proposed port expansion. In the ensuing controversy it was designated as parkland. The Africville expropriation is often characterized as an example of institutional racism in Halifax. Descendants and residents of Africville were dispersed among some of the North End's public housing projects, as well as into other communities throughout

1107-738: The construction of the Nova Scotia Railway in the 1850s which located its terminal in the North End. Factories such as the Nova Scotia Cotton Manufacturing Company , Hillis & Sons Foundry, and the Acadia Sugar Refinery, made the North End the focus of manufacturing in Halifax. Railway growth intensified with the extension of railways further into the North End and construction of the North Street Station in 1878,

1148-476: The country's largest military base. His Majesty's Canadian Dockyard (HMC Dockyard Halifax) is a sprawling complex that occupies the harbourfront area next to the traditional North End. Stadacona, on the opposite side of Barrington Street, is host to barracks and a host of supporting facilities housed in both historic and modern structures. In the centre of the peninsula, away from the shoreline, Windsor Park and Willow Park are home to base transport and supply, housing,

1189-479: The east coast. In 2011 the shipyard was selected to build the navy's new combat fleet, comprising 21 vessels costing $ 25 billion over a period of 30 years. Irving Shipbuilding, owner of the shipyard, has undertaken a $ 300 million upgrade of the facility, boasting that Halifax will have "the most modern shipyard in North America". The shipbuilding contract is expected to employ between 2,000 and 2,500 people at

1230-479: The expense of some long time residents. There is still a Black presence in the community, although it is shrinking and for the most part limited to the confines of the public housing surrounding Uniacke Square. As of 2019, only a handful of homes are still owned by Black families. The area has become home to organizations such as the Bloomfield Centre, Grainery Food Co-Op, Turnstile Pottery Cooperative,

1271-454: The height of construction in 2021. The North End is home to several historic churches. The Little Dutch Church , adapted as a church in 1756, is the second-oldest building in the municipality. St. George's Church is a unique round church at the corner of Brunswick and Cornwallis Streets completed in 1801. After St. George's Church was badly burned in an accidental 1994 fire, Prince Charles , who had visited it in 1983 with Princess Diana ,

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1312-433: The largest station east of Montreal. Wharves warehouses lined the waterfront, along with the city's prison at Rockhead and major defence installations such as HMC Dockyard and Stadacona (formerly HMCS Stadacona and Wellington Barracks, now part of CFB Halifax ). On 6 December 1917, the Halifax Explosion damaged and destroyed much of the North End. The explosion's aftermath saw the area north of North Street razed, and

1353-674: The latter half of the 20th century, and as a result of car-oriented urban renewal schemes. Many nearby residences were demolished when the northern part of Barrington Street was transformed into a highway to serve the Macdonald Bridge, and when the Cogswell Interchange was built. In 1958, several blocks of houses and apartment buildings were demolished in an attempt to boost patronage on Gottingen by providing additional car parking. Seven new parking lots were built, displacing local residents to other areas, but according to

1394-421: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairview_Cemetery&oldid=1250876276 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Fairview Lawn Cemetery

1435-470: The name of Leonardo DiCaprio 's character in the film is Jack Dawson. Many filmgoers, moved by the story, left flowers and ticket stubs at Dawson's grave when the film was first released, and flowers continue to be left today. Film director James Cameron has said the character's name was not in fact inspired by the grave. More recent research has revealed that the grave actually belongs to Joseph Dawson, an Irishman who worked in Titanic ' s boiler room as

1476-424: The northern part of Halifax Peninsula immediately north of Downtown Halifax . Prior to European colonization, the Mi'kmaq inhabited the land throughout Atlantic Canada and Northern Maine. The North End of Halifax began as an agricultural expansion north from central Halifax as African American and German Foreign Protestant settlers arrived in the province. It became the focus of industry in Halifax with

1517-521: The perception of the North End had come to generally include Richmond as well. Following its total destruction in the Halifax Explosion , Richmond never again regained its individual identity. The area underwent significant redevelopment during the inter-war period and gradually became an extension of the original North End. The northern part of the Halifax Peninsula comprises thin soil resulting from glacial deposits, as well as outcroppings of

1558-635: The urban area, and beyond. Seaview Park on the Bedford Basin is the site of Africville The North End has traditionally been home to a number of important African Nova Scotian institutions. Provincial institutions like the African United Baptist Association and the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Colored People were formed in the North End at New Horizons Baptist Church . Throughout

1599-570: Was among those who donated toward its reconstruction. The restoration was completed in 2000. St Patrick's Church , also on Brunswick Street, was founded in 1843 and rebuilt in its present form in 1885. The Africville Church, established in 1849 and razed under cover of darkness in 1969, was reconstructed in 2011 as part of the Africville Apology . The North End is home to several of military installations within CFB Halifax ,

1640-480: Was built in 1918 beside the Naval Dockyard, further entrenching the industrial character of the North End. The area once included historic Africville . A former African-Canadian community settled by African slaves coming to Canada, it was located on the shores of the Bedford Basin within the North End. A consequence of the Halifax Explosion , the community was damaged on 6 December 1917. In January 1964,

1681-544: Was selected by city coroner/registrar John Henry Barnstead as the site where the Titanic victims should be buried. One hundred and twenty-one victims of the RMS ; Titanic sinking are interred at Fairview, more than any other cemetery in the world. Most of them are memorialized with small gray granite markers with the name and date of death. Some families paid for larger markers with more inscriptions. The occupants of

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