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Alexander Gillis death at Sydney Mines, Cape County on February 3, 1971

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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