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John Gillis death at Glace Bay, Cape Breton County on August 29, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5237

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005237

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, John

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

Scottish

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Dominion

9. DATE OF BIRTH 4  12, 1895

10. AGE in  Years76  Months4  Days17 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession Retired Chief Engineer

12. Kind of industry Dominion Coal Co.

13. Date last worked 11 yrs ago       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Julia Coady

16. NAME of Father Angus Gillis

17. BIRTHPLACE Ingonish, NS

18. NAME of Mother Isabel MacNeil

19. BIRTHPLACE Ingonish, NS

20. Signature of Informant Coady Gillis

      address 76 Ocean Ave., Glace Bay, NS

      Relationship to deceased Son

21. Place of burial Calvary Cemetery, Dominion, NS

      Date of burial Sept 1,1971

22. Undertaker V. J. McGillivray Funeral Homes Ltd., 16 Reserve Street, Glace Bay

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Hypostatic Pneumonia

(b) Generalized Arteriosclerosis with Emphysema

(c)

other Arthritis and Anorexia

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