Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1585
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001585
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape If in City or Town Sydney Mines
If death occured in a hospital or institution 3 Jacob St.
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Gillis, Alexander
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 11 11, 1888
10. AGE in Years82 Months2 Days22 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Miner
12. Kind of industry Coal Mining
13. Date last worked 1960 14. Total years 40
15. If married name of spouse Florence MacKinnon
16. NAME of Father Angus Gillis
17. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
18. NAME of Mother Mary Ann Fortune
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Florence MacKeigan
address 3 Jacob St., Sydney Mines
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Brookside Cemetery, Sydney Mines
Date of burial February 6, 1971
22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney Mines
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Sudden death coronary occlusion
(b) arteriosclerosis
(c)
other
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