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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