Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 6298
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006298
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney Mines
If death occured in a hospital or institution Harbour View Hospital, Sydney Mines
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED McDonald, John William
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 1, 1885
10. AGE in Years85 Months2 Days28 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Section-Man
12. Kind of industry C.N. Railway
13. Date last worked May 1956 14. Total years 35 years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Laughlin McDonald
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Isabelle McLellan
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Catherine Keigan
address 193A Main St. , Sydney mines
Relationship to deceased sister
21. Place of burial Brookside, Sydney Mines
Date of burial October 31, 1970
22. Undertaker George R. Fraser, Sydney Mines
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Cancer of Lung
(b)
(c)
other
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