I am new to the list and have had great trouble trying to find the answer to a question. I hope you can help. My great great grandfather, Reverend Edward WHITE contracted smallpox on a return voyage from Britain to New York and was taken ill, and hospitalized, 07 June 1872, in your Montreal General where he died 16 June 1872 "in hospital, at two o'clock in the morning", just short of his 50th birthday. His family was living in Hamilton, ON and he was supposed to be attending a Conference of the Methodist Church, which was being held in Montreal, at that time. Two questions: 1) Would his body have been disposed of onsite (as it was diseased)? Cremated? Buried? Where? What was Hospital policy at that time? What parish is the hospital in? 2) Would his wife, (Sarah) Jane 'WHITE have been allowed to come from Ontario to pick his body up for taking back to Ontario? I would greatly appreciate any information you could shed on his probable whereabouts. He was a pioneer Methodist missionary, the first to arrive in BC, in 1859, and I am trying to write his history. I am filling out a request for his provincial death certificate. It seems to have two (or three?) columns...one, under DEATH for "Full-sized certificate $15, and another for "Copy of Act" $20 and a third box at the end for "CIVIL STATUS: Full sized certificate" $25. Which ones must I purchase? Janet WHITE Burnaby, BC --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Are you still wasting your time with spam?... There is a solution!" Protected by GIANT Company's Spam Inspector The most powerful anti-spam software available. http://www.giantcompany.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Are you still wasting your time with spam?... There is a solution!" Protected by GIANT Company's Spam Inspector The most powerful anti-spam software available. http://www.giantcompany.com