HALIFAX -- A Nova Scotia funeral home has gone public with an unusual problem: unclaimed cremated remains. Some of the ashes have been sitting for nearly half a century, and the funeral home owner says it's time they were laid to rest. “It’s not right to have people here that should be with their families or buried in a family plot with their spouse, significant other, brother, sister parents - whatever the case may be,” Bruce Varner, owner and managing director of Mattatall-Varner Funeral Home in Truro, told CTV News. Varner posted a list of unclaimed remains on the company website and Facebook page in early May and has been making contact with several families who’ve come to claim them.