I don't have access to obits from that period but vital stats can be accessed through the Nova Scotia Provincial Archive site at
www.novascotiagenealogy.caThis is a free, searchable site-you may need to download a viewer program which is free onsite to see the actual record.
I found the death certificate of Grace Ellen Psutka who died in 1950 age 24 of pulmonary tuberculosis. Informant was a Walter Wooding (no relation) who listed her parents as Henry Herriott born England and Ellen Lowe born Halifax, NS.