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Biography
Private Samuel MacPherson was born February 16, 1889. He was the son of John Hugh MacPherson and Catherine McDonald. MacPherson moved west in 1906 and joined a harvest excursion. He later worked in Phoenix, British Columbia to work with a mining company He then worked on the Grandview Great Northern Railway cut in 1908 and the building of the B. C. Electric electrified tram line from Vancouver to Chilliwack, British Columbia. By 1911, MacPherson had joined the logging industry and was working in Thurlow Island, British Columbia.
Prior to his enlistment to serve, MacPherson worked as a logger for B. C. Mills Timber and Trading Company in Blind Channel, West Thurlow Island, British Columbia. MacPherson enlisted in April 9, 1918 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He served with the 11th Battalion of the Canadian Garrison Regiment and was stuck off the Canadian Expeditionary Force April 8, 1919 in Vancouver due to illegal absence.
In 1920, MacPherson married Rose Wilhelmina Kiltimen July 3, 1920 in Vancouver and he continued to work as a logger in Cranford Anchorage, Comox British Columba.
He died November 6, 1990 at Hilltop Extended Care Hospital House in Squamish, British Columbia. He is buried at Valley View Memorial Gardens, Surrey, British Columbia.
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