Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 4944
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 004944
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town Joggins
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Vance, Lawson Burnell Joseph
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Joggins
9. DATE OF BIRTH 7 29, 1963
10. AGE in Years6 Months11 Days21 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Grade One
12. Kind of industry Student
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Lawson B. Vance
17. BIRTHPLACE Joggins
18. NAME of Mother Grace A. VanSnick
19. BIRTHPLACE Joggins
20. Signature of Informant Lawson Vance
address Joggins
Relationship to deceased Father
21. Place of burial Ragged Reef
Date of burial July 24, 1970
22. Undertaker Furlongs Funeral Home Ltd. Amherst
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Drowning
(b)
(c)
other accident drowning while at play swimming in river
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