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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