Isaac Christopher McKinnon

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

406142

Unit at enlistment:

36th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Paris, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

54 Gladstone Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

54 Gladstone Avenue, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Blacksmith

Employer:

Cockshutt Plow Co.

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

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Miscellaneous

BX May 4, 1955

Isaac C. McKinnon

The death occurred Tuesday evening at his home, 47 Kennedy Street, of Isaac Christopher McKinnon in his 75th year. Born at Paris Plains he had resided in Brantford for 47 years. Prior to his retirement in 1940, Mr. McKinnon was employed as a blacksmith at the Massey-Harris-Ferguson Verity Works, the Cockshutt Farm Equipment Company and Koehring-Waterous Limited. He served with the 36th Battalion in the First World War, receiving a citation for his horsemanship. Mr. McKinnon is survived by his widow, formerly Mary Drysdale; five sons, Neil, Detroit, Gordon, Guelph, Lloyd, Anacortes, Washington, and Harold and Lance of Brantford; one daughter, Mrs. Fred (Alice) McKnight, Brantford; 29 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Mr. McKinnon is resting at the Beckett Funeral Home until Saturday, May 7 when the funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX May 10, 1955

Isaac C. McKinnon

The funeral service for Isaac Christopher McKinnon, 47 Kennedy Street, was conducted Saturday afternoon at the Beckett Funeral Home, Rev. A.C. Whitcombe, Shenstone Memorial Baptist Church, officiated. The many friends and relatives in attendance and the profusion of floral tributes evinced the esteem in which Mr. McKinnon was held. The pallbearers were Russell McKinnon, Charles McKinnon, both of Detroit; Harold McKinnon, city, Keith McKinnon, Guelph, Eric McKnight, Paris, and Arnold Mayle, Detroit, all nephews of the deceased. Interment was in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX September 7, 1916

To Return Home

On Friday morning Toronto will welcome back from the front fifty-two veterans of the war, who because of wounds or other ailments, are invalided home. Of the party 39 are for the city and the other hail from points throughout the divisional area. Pte. Isaac Christopher McKinnon is on his way home to Brantford.

BX September 9, 1916

Veteran Coming Home

One of the 52 war veterans who arrived in Toronto yesterday invalided home from the front was Pte. Isaac McKinnon of Brantford. It is not known here just when the hero will arrive home, no word having been received by officials of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission. Pte. McKinnon was with the second machine gun brigade at the front. He was in the trenches five and a half months when he was struck in the back by a piece of shrapnel.