Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5165
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005165
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Shelburne If in City or Town Shelburne
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Bruce, Sylvester
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English Negro
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 12 7, 1945
10. AGE in Years24 Months7 Days11 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession House Keeping Department
12. Kind of industry Roseway Hospital
13. Date last worked 1970 14. Total years 1
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Merriel Bruce
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Alberta Guy
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Herbert Bruce
address 24 Primrose St. Dartmouth
Relationship to deceased Brother
21. Place of burial Pine Grove Cemetery, Shelburne
Date of burial July 22, 1970
22. Undertaker Huskilsons Funeral Home, Shelburne
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Cerebral Auoxeia
(b) GNS depression
(c) due to alcohol and other drugs
other
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