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Roderick Joseph McDonald death at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County on September 15, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 5563

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005563

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Glace Bay

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED McDonald, Roderick Joseph

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Glace Bay

9. DATE OF BIRTH 5  25, 1947

10. AGE in  Years23  Months3  Days21 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Steel Metal Mechanic

12. Kind of industry Port Hawkesbury Construction

13. Date last worked August 20, 1970       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Bernadette Nauffets

16. NAME of Father John Finlay  McDonald

17. BIRTHPLACE River Denys

18. NAME of Mother Mary Julia  LeBlanc

19. BIRTHPLACE Cheticamp

20. Signature of Informant S.J. McDonald

      address Reserve Mines

      Relationship to deceased Brother

21. Place of burial Saint Josephs Cemetery, Glace Bay

      Date of burial September 17, 1970

22. Undertaker V.J. McGillivray Funeral Home, Glace Bay

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Fractured Skull with generalized artersions

(b)

(c)

other accident - car

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