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Alexander Smith death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on May 8, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4377

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004377

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution Spring Garden Villa

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Smith, Alexander

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

widowed

8. BIRTHPLACE Reserve Mines

9. DATE OF BIRTH 9  10, 1905

10. AGE in  Years65  Months7  Days28 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Cape Breton Hospital

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked 1959       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Ethel McDonald

16. NAME of Father Alex Smith

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Lorna McDonald

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Howard Chiasson

      address Reserve Mines, CB, NS

      Relationship to deceased Legion Member

21. Place of burial St. Joseph's Cemetery, Reserve Mines, CB, NS

      Date of burial May 11, 1971

22. Undertaker Curry's Funeral Home, Glace Bay, NS

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Chronic Degenerative Myocarditis

(b) Several attacks - coronary infarction

(c) Arteriosclerosis

other Organic Brain Disease (Alcoholism)

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