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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