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Robert James Smith death at Truro, Colchester County on August 23, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5255

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 005255

1. PLACE OF DEATH   County of Colchester If in City or Town Truro
If death occured in a hospital or institution Colchester Hospital, Truro, NS

3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Smith, Robert James

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 5  17, 1903

10. AGE in  Years68  Months3  Days6 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession CN employee

12. Kind of industry

13. Date last worked       14. Total years

15. If married name of spouse Mrs. Robert J. Smith

16. NAME of Father William Smith

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Sahara MacLeod

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Robert J. Smith

      address 1219 Prince St. Truro

      Relationship to deceased Wife

21. Place of burial Watson Cemetery, Salmon River, NS

      Date of burial August 25, 1971

22. Undertaker Mattatall Funeral Home, Truro

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Acute Myocardial Infarction

(b) Emphysema with

(c) Respiratory Failure

other

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