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  • ID: I609
  • Name: Malcolm "Mack" MacKinnon
  • Nickname: Mack
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 4 Nov 1895 in Kincardine Tp, Bruce Co, Ontario
  • Death: 10 Mar 1963 in White Rock, British Columbia 1
  • Burial: 13 Mar 1963 Ocean View, Burnaby, British Columbia 1
  • Census: 31 Mar 1901 Kincardine Tp, Bruce Co, Ontario
  • Note: Malcolm McKinnon, b. 4 Nov 1895, age 5, b. Ontario, Congregationalist 2
  • Census: 5 Jun 1911 Kincardine Tp, Bruce Co, Ontario
  • Note: Malcolm McKinnon, 15, b. November 1894, Ontario, Congregationalist, Farmer's son 3
  • Event: Enlisted CEF 5 Feb 1916 Tiverton, Bruce Tp, Bruce Co, Ontario 4
  • Residence: 1963 1946 King George Hwy, White Rock, British Columbia
  • Note:
    Mack enlisted in the 160th Bruce battalion at Tiverton on 5 Feb 1916. He was described as 6ft 1.5 inches in height, with dark complexion, grey eyes and black hair. He was Baptist. Mack embarked from Halifax on 17 Oct on the S.S. Metagama. Remaining in England at Witley, he was appointed acting Lance Corporal, then acting Corporal on 31 Mar 1917. In July he was knocked down to private after been absent without leave for two days. He spent a couple of weeks in hospital for parotiditis (mumps). Mack finally got to France on 1 Mar 1918 with the 1st Battalion. On 1 September 1918, Mack won the Distinguished Conduct Medal for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty". A big, powerful man, he cleared exploding six inch shells off a road while being strafed by an aircraft, and so allowed the advance to proceed. (See Norman McLeod, "The History of the County of Bruce 1907-1968", Vol 2, pg 233; and "Bruce in Khaki" (1934)). He returned to England in Mar 1919 and to Canada in Apr 1919. About 1930, Mack moved to Cedar B.C. where he was a logger. He and Jean had no children. Mack retired in 1958 and they moved to White Rock two years prior to his death. He died suddenly at home of a heart attack. His body was cremated at Ocean View crematorium in Burnaby. His ashes were buried in Tiverton Cemetery on 12 April 1963.

    CEF Box 7006-34, Regimental No. 651746




    Father: Archibald MacKinnon b: 1 Sep 1837 in Salum, Tiree, Argyll, Scotland c: 18 Oct 1837 in Salum, Tiree, Argyll, Scotland
    Mother: Catherine McDonald b: 3 Aug 1856 in Fergus, Nichol Tp, Wellington Co, Ontario

    Marriage 1 Jane Stuart (Clark) Evans
    • Married: 25 Dec 1947 in British Columbia

    Sources:
    1. Title: B.C. Death Registration
      Publication: website
      Page: Film B13261/1963-09-004710
    2. Title: 1901 census of Canada. RG 31. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
      Author: Canada.
      Page: district 50, sub-district C-3, Kincardine Tp, p. 1, dwelling 3, family 3, Arch McKinnon family
    3. Title: 1911 census of Canada. RG 31. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
      Author: Canada. Ontario.
      Page: district 59, sub-district 30, Kincardine Township, p. 3, dwelling 34, family 34, Archie McKinnon family
    4. Title: Attestation Paper, Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force personnel files
      Repository:
        Name: Library and Archives Canada

      Page: Regimental No. 651746, Box 7006-34
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