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The is no central register for BMD events in Canada as it is a provincial jurisdiction. If I found the right family on the passenger lists (Richard emigrated a few months before Jean and the children) then it appears they settled in Hamilton, Ontario. Ontario privacy laws restrict birth records so births from less than 100 years ago are protected.
The Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid (
http://ocfa.islandnet.com/) has burials for a Richard and Jean I. Ruttle at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Binbrook Twp, Wentworth County (reference HM-152-1). You could contact the Hamilton Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (
http://www.ogs.on.ca/hamilton/) or the cemetery (
http://chapelhillcemetery.ca/) to try to obtain their dates of death. The OGS does charge for the look-up but it's a small amount.
The Hamilton Public Library may be able to help with finding an obituary or other BMD announcements (
http://www.myhamilton.ca/public-library).
Jacquie
Canada: Patterson, Brown, Haidenger/Heidinger, Meyer, Johnston(e), Gorsuch, Kitchin/Kitchen
United States: Patterson, Smith, Brown, Vance, Bower(s), Newberry, Best, Love, Gorsuch
England (Northumberland): Brown, Whitfield, Henderson
Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, East Lothian): Johnston(e), Bell, Galloway, Campbell, Robertson, Williamson, Thomson, Crawford
Germans from Russia: Haidenger/Heidinger, Meyer, Meach, Lorenz