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Daniel Finlayson death at Sydney Mines, Cape Breton County on February 17, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1741

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 001741

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney Mines
If death occured in a hospital or institution Pitt St.

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Finlayson, Daniel

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Sydney Mines

9. DATE OF BIRTH 1  14, 1946

10. AGE in  Years25  Months1  Days3 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Miner

12. Kind of industry Coal Mining

13. Date last worked Feb. 17/71       14. Total years 6

15. If married name of spouse Sandra MacNeil

16. NAME of Father John Finlayson

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Violet Finlayson

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Sandra Finlayson

      address 3 Jessome St., Sydney Mines

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial St. Andrews Cemetery, Sydney Mines

      Date of burial February 20, 1971

22. Undertaker FIllmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney Mines

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Cerebral anoxia

(b) Hypovolemic shock

(c) mass crush injury with disruption of R ? bone from pelvis

other Many vessels lacerated Avulsion of L colon

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