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William Albert MacDonald death at Sydney, Cape Breton County on December 13, 1971

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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