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Edward MacPhail death at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County on March 7, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 2511

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 002511

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Glace Bay
If death occured in a hospital or institution General Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED MacPhail, Edward

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

single

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 6  17, 1909

10. AGE in  Years67  Months8  Days18 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired Coal Miner

12. Kind of industry Dom. Coal Co.

13. Date last worked 1969       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse

16. NAME of Father Norman MacPhail

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Ellen Bragg

19. BIRTHPLACE Newfoundland

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Eunice McPhail

      address 26 Douglas Ave., Glace Bay

      Relationship to deceased Sister in law

21. Place of burial Greenwood Cemetery, Glace Bay

      Date of burial 9 March 1971

22. Undertaker Patten's Funeral Home Ltd., 71 Union Street, Glace Bay

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) 3rd Degree Burns, 90% of the body

(b)

(c)

other Shock due to burns

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