Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 3873
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003873
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution Sydney City Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Seale, Sandford
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
African
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Cape Breton
9. DATE OF BIRTH 1 18, 1954
10. AGE in Years17 Months4 Days10 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Student
12. Kind of industry
13. Date last worked 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Oscar Seale
17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
18. NAME of Mother Leotha Gittens
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Oscar Seale
address 988 Westmount Road, Westmount, NS
Relationship to deceased Father
21. Place of burial Forest Haven Memorial, Sydney-Glace Bay Highway, CB, NS
Date of burial June 2, 1971
22. Undertaker T.W. Curry Limited., Sydney, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Stab wound of Abdomen
(b) Ruptured Bowel, ruptured Aorta, ruptured Superior Mesenteric Vein, ruptured Middle lobe artery
(c)
other Homicide
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Note: African Nova Scotian - Sandy Seale - homicide victim from the Donald Marshall Jr. wrongful conviction.
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