Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3409
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003409
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town Amherst
If death occured in a hospital or institution Highland View Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED McKeigan, George Wellington
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE River Hebert
9. DATE OF BIRTH 2 17, 1913
10. AGE in Years58 Months2 Days10 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Labourer
12. Kind of industry Canadian National Railway
13. Date last worked about 10 yrs ago 14. Total years 20 yrs off/on
15. If married name of spouse Lucy L. McKeigan
16. NAME of Father William W. McKeigan
17. BIRTHPLACE USA
18. NAME of Mother Laura L. McLeod
19. BIRTHPLACE Springhill, NS
20. Signature of Informant Hector George McKeigan
address River Hebert, Nova Scotia
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial River Hebert, NS
Date of burial April 29, 1971
22. Undertaker Furlong's Funeral Home, Ltd, Amherst, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Pulmonary Edema
(b) Purulent Bronchiectasis
(c) Cor pulmonaria
other Fibrosis of Lung Coal miner -development work
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