101 - John Brown Calvin - Beechwood, Ottawa, Ontario
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N 45° 26.874 W 075° 39.591
18T E 448400 N 5032920
The marker is in section 25, lot 53.
Waymark Code: WMPZ94
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 11/15/2015
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JOHN BROWN CALVIN
SERGEANT
CANADIAN FORESTRY CORPS
27 NOVEMBER 1973 AGE 101
The following death notice was published in The Ottawa Journal, 28 November 1973, page 71.
On Tuesday, Nov. 27, 1973, at his home, 160 Begonia Ave., John Brown Calvin, husband of the late Alice Anderson, in his 102nd year; beloved father of Fern M. and Mrs. Iris Dillon; grandfather of Lawrence C. Dillon. Resting Hulse and Playfair Central Chapel, 315 McLeod St. Service Thursday at 11 a.m. Interment Beechwood cemetery.
According to his First World War military personnel records (regimental number 2160056), lumber inspector Calvin joined the Ottawa Railway Construction and Forestry Draft in May 1917. He left Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Liverpool, England, 22 June 1917. Calvin was soon part of the Forestry Corps headquarters at Smith's Lawn, Sunningdale, Berkshire. As part of Company 73, Canadian Forestry Corps, he landed in France, 8 September 1917. Calvin's stay in France lasted until February 1919 and included one month of hospitalization with influenza at the Canadian General Hospital in Saint-Cloud, Paris.
According to the Ontario birth registration for their daughter Iris, John Brown Calvin and Alice Anderson were married in Ottawa, 19 January 1899.
John Brown Calvin was born in March 1872.