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George Arthur Melanson death at New Glasgow, Pictou County on October 21, 1970

Male Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 6489

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 006489

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Pictou If in City or Town New Glasgow

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Melanson, George Arthur

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Yarmouth

9. DATE OF BIRTH 1  24, 1895

10. AGE in  Years75  Months8  Days26 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession

12. Kind of industry Retired

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Gladys Illsley

16. NAME of Father Joseph Melanson

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Adeline 

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Elizabeth Clark

      address Kentville

      Relationship to deceased Daughter

21. Place of burial Yarmouth

      Date of burial October 23, 1970

22. Undertaker H. C. Lindsay Funeral Home, Kentville

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1970

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Fracture base of skull causing severed brain stem

(b)

(c)

other Multiple fractures

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