Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1703
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001703
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Civic Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED MacDonnell, John Lauchlin Laffin
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Tracadie
9. DATE OF BIRTH 1 5, 1905
10. AGE in Years66 Months1 Days9 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Ticket Agent
12. Kind of industry Canadian National Railway
13. Date last worked 1965 14. Total years 40
15. If married name of spouse Flora MacDonnell
16. NAME of Father Daniel MacDonnell
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Margaret Cameron
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Flora MacDonnell
address 3045 Olivet Street, Halifax
Relationship to deceased Wife
21. Place of burial Tracadie
Date of burial February 16, 1971
22. Undertaker Halifax Funeral Home Limited, Halifax
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Carcinoma of Rectum
(b) Faecal Fistula
(c) Wound Sepsis
other Metastases
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