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- Did not locate a birth registration in Ontario for Sydney. Church Register, Rosseau, Ullswater/Bent River, North Cardwell, Sydney Chichester was baptized on December 7, 1895 in his parents home in Watt Township, parents Alexander Wakeman Edwards and Mary Anne, Sydney born 20 November 1895. Church Register, Rosseau, Ullswater/Bent River, North Cardwell, Sydney Edwards was Confirmed into the church September 24, 1911 at age 17. Attestation Papers when Sydney signed up for the Canadian Expeditionary Forces: Sydney Edwards, Burks Falls, born Raymond, Muskoka, Ont., on 20 Nov. 1895, next of kin Mary Edwards of Burks Falls, mother, signed 11 March 1916 and was to report in three weeks, 3 April 1916. He was 20, 5' 31/2" tall, chest expanded 37 3/4", expansion range 3 3/4", complexion dark, eyes hazel. hair black, religion Church of England. Assigned to 162nd O.S. Batt'n C.E.F., regimental number 657724. Was living in Windermere in 1928 when his sister Violet died. Was living in Toronto in 1948 when his mother died and when his uncle Thomas T. Thomson died. Was living in Willowdale (Toronto) in 1962 when his sister Janet Margaret died. Was living at 33 Jewel Street, Thornhill, Ontario where he passed away.
(from the collection of Janet Marilyn (Parsons) Mason)
Sydney Chichester Edwards
A Muskoka born Willowdale resident, eldest of the eight children of the late A.W. Edwards and Mary Ann Edwards, of Raymond and Burks Falls, passed away suddenly at Willowdale on Thursday, July 2nd in his 74th year.
Mr. Edwards was well known in the Bracebridge area during his 14 years in managing North Bohemia Island on Lake Rosseau near Windermere, the summer property of the late Sir (Col.) Albert Gooderham and the late Norman Seagram, whose family still resides there.
He was the paternal grandson of a British Naval officer who obtained a land grant in Muskoka in the early 1800's. His mother was a granddaughter of a cousin of David Thomson, the first resident of the now Borough of Scarborough. Mr. Edwards moved with his family to Burks Falls in 1914 where he enlisted in World War I. After training at Sandridge and Niagara-on-the-Lake in the Signal Corps he went overseas. In England he was transferred to the famed 75th Battalion where he served until the end of the war.
He was a lead scout in No Man's Land at Vimy Ridge, was wounded in action there, returned to the trenches after hospitalization in England, and was again wounded near Paschendale in the spring of 1918. Mr. Edwards pursued a business education after the war and for several years worked in administration at camp sites for the J.R. Booth Lumber Company and the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Company.
In 1924 he was married to Sara Bunn, the youngest daughter of of the late Clement Bunn and Martha Bunn, of Ullswater. In the fall of 1926 he returned to Muskoka where he resided year round in North Bohemia. After returning to Toronto in 1943 Mr. Edwards began a new career as Stationary Engineer. At the time of his death he was still working part time for St. John's Convalescent Hospital in Willowdale, where he had finally retired as Chief Engineer in 1967.
Funeral services were held at St. Patrick's Anglican Church, Willowdale, on Monday July 6th, with interment at Westminster Memorial Gardens.
Mr. Edwards was a member of York Lodge A.F. & A.M. 156 and a former member of Bracebridge Masonic Lodge. He originally joined Tecumseh Lodge A.F. & A.M. in Stratford in 1921.
He is survived by two sons, Stanton and Beverley, both of Agincourt in Metropolitan Toronto, and five grandchildren.
(Wayne Thomson note: Sydney's mother was a granddaughter of a nephew of David Thomson, the first settler of Scarborough)
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1895 - 1970 (74 years)
