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Alexander Burchell death at Sydney Mines, Cape Breton County on November 22, 1971

Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6746

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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH

02 - 006746

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 Burchell, Alexander

4. Sex

Male

5. Citizenship

Canadian

6. Racial Origin

English

7. Single, Married

married

8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

9. DATE OF BIRTH 9  17, 1885

10. AGE in  Years86  Months2  Days5 | hrs or mins

11. Trade or profession clerk

12. Kind of industry Department Store

13. Date last worked 1951       14. Total years 45

15. If married name of spouse Ann MacLean

16. NAME of Father Hedley Burchell

17. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

18. NAME of Mother Emma  Boyd

19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia

20. Signature of Informant Elizabeth Arsenault

      address Sydney Mines

      Relationship to deceased Daughter

21. Place of burial Brookside Cemetery, Sydney Mines

      Date of burial 25 November 1971

22. Undertaker Fillmore & Whitman Funeral Home Limited, Sydney Mines

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

23. DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1971

CAUSE OF DEATH

(a) Acute Pulmonary Edema

(b) Congestive Heart Failure

(c)

other

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