Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 7621
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 007621
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution Sydney City Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED MacDonald, William Albert
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE Leitches Creek
9. DATE OF BIRTH 12 14, 1884
10. AGE in Years86 Months11 Days21 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Chief Engineer for Donald Brothers
12. Kind of industry DOSCO
13. Date last worked 1965 14. Total years 61
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father John J. MacDonald
17. BIRTHPLACE Leitches Creek, Cape Breton Co., NS
18. NAME of Mother Elizabeth Jane Ross
19. BIRTHPLACE New Castle, New Brunswick
20. Signature of Informant Mrs. Eleanor J. MacKenzie
address 162 Dorchester Street, Sydney, NS
Relationship to deceased Daughter
21. Place of burial Forest Haven Cemetery, Sydney - Glace Bay Highway, Cape Breton Co., NS
Date of burial 16 December 1971
22. Undertaker R. H. Fillmore Funeral Home Ltd., Sydney, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Arteriosclerotic Heart, Vascular & Cerebral Disease
(b) Fall with compression fracture of vertibra
(c)
other
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