Elwood Gordon Mayot

Rank:

Sergeant Major

Regimental number:

225501

Unit at enlistment:

Depot Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

251 Brant Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

251 Brant Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Mine operator

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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BX September 8, 1947

Elwood Mayot Died Sunday

Elwood Gordon Mayot, prospector and artist and well known in Brantford for many years, died Sunday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John C. Harris, 12 Downing Street, in his seventy-first year.

Mr. Mayot, who was born in Brantford, the only son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Lactance Mayot, was a colorful figure. He was a prospector in the pioneer days of Northern Ontario, and well known as an artist and sign writer. For 28 years a prospector he fought the bush, rocks and rivers of Northern Ontario, and though he made no spectacular strike, he saw the North’s frontier at its rawest. He was a most interesting raconteur of tales of the North.

Mr. Mayot was also a veteran of the Boer War and the First World War, serving in the latter as a squadron sergeant in the Canadian Mounted Rifles.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. John C. (Lenore) Harris, Brantford; three sons, Harvey Gordon and Norman Mayot, all of this City and veterans of the Royal Canadian Air Force; four sisters, Mrs. Lillian Foulds, London, Mrs. Roy Pearce, and Miss Villa Mayot, Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. E. Mitchell, Victoria, B.C. Mrs. Mayot died in 1937 and three sisters also predeceased him.

Mr. Mayot is resting at Thorpe Brothers Funeral Home, where the funeral service will be conducted Tuesday afternoon. Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX September 10, 1947

Elwood G. Mayot

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon for Elwood G. Mayot at Thorpe Brothers’ Funeral Home and in Mount Hope Cemetery. Rev. W.C. Almack of Brant Avenue United Church, officiated. Pallbearers were James Quinlan, W. Ross Macdonald, M.P., Blake Kester, Frank Gould, Stanley Mellick and Leonard F. Bishop.