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Michael Joseph Gillis death at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County on May 25, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3567

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 003567

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

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Gillis, Michael Joseph

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Glace Bay

9. DATE OF BIRTH 11  17, 1893

10. AGE in  Years77  Months6  Days8 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired foreman of Construction

12. Kind of industry Dominion Coal Company, at Machine Shop

13. Date last worked 1961       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Sarah McDougall (dec'd)

16. NAME of Father Michael L. Gillis

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Annie McEachern

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Alex Gillis

      address 346 5th St, Glace Bay, NS

      Relationship to deceased Brother

21. Place of burial St. Anne's Cemetery, Glace Bay, NS

      Date of burial May 28, 1971

22. Undertaker V. J. McGillivray Funeral Homes Limited, Glace Bay

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Coronary Heart Disease

(b) Carcinoma of Lung

(c) Diverticulitis

other Cerebrovascular Accident - right sided Paralysis

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