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James Smith death at Sydney Mines, Cape Breton County on August 3, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 4762

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 004762

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney Mines
If death occured in a hospital or institution Harbour View Hospital

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Smith, James

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scotish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Scotland

9. DATE OF BIRTH 7  25, 1899

10. AGE in  Years72  Months0  Days8 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Miner

12. Kind of industry Coal Mining

13. Date last worked 1953       14. Total years 45

15. If married name of spouse Martha Campbell

16. NAME of Father James  Smith

17. BIRTHPLACE Scotland

18. NAME of Mother Janet Bennett Stephenson

19. BIRTHPLACE Scotland

20. Signature of Informant William E. Smith

      address 58 Guy St., Sydney Mines, NS

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial St Andrews Cemetery, Sydney Mines

      Date of burial August 6, 1971

22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Ltd. Sydney Mines

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Cerebrovascular Accident

(b) Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease

(c)

other Pulmonary Emphysema & Carcinoma of Lung?

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