IT WAS A WEEKEND FILLED WITH TEARS IN SEVERAL SMALL WESTERN TOWNS, AS FAMILY AND FRIENDS — AND OTHERS PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED BY THE HUMBOLDT BUS DISASTER — GATHERED TO SAY FAREWELL.

More than a century after the Titanic was swallowed by frigid waters, Nova Scotians gathered in Halifax Sunday to remember the lives lost during the ship’s fateful maiden voyage. Some 1,500 passengers and crew members died on April 15, 1912, when the so-called “unsinkable ship” struck an iceberg and went down in the North Atlantic, south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. One hundred and fifty of those victims were laid to rest in Halifax.