Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 2005
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 002005
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town Amherst
If death occured in a hospital or institution Highland View Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Coates, Harold Gates
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Amherst
9. DATE OF BIRTH 1 8, 1886
10. AGE in Years84 Months1 Days18 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Grocery Clerk
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 1958 14. Total years life
15. If married name of spouse Flora M. Coates (1st); Grace Coates (2nd)
16. NAME of Father Arthur Coates
17. BIRTHPLACE Amherst
18. NAME of Mother (left blank) McTellan
19. BIRTHPLACE Cumberland County
20. Signature of Informant Leroy M. Coates
address 4 Dale St., Amherst
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Amherst Cemetery, Amherst
Date of burial February 28, 1970
22. Undertaker Furlong's Funeral Home, Ltd., Amherst
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Annuria
(b) Surgical operation
(c) Carcinoma of rectum
other Age
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