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James Lloyd Evans
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Merchant, soldier, diarist.
Born in North Wales on 17 March 1879, he fought in the Boer War before immigrating to Canada and settled at Miniota around 1902. There, he worked as a hardware and lumber merchant. In 1904, he returned to Mold, Wales to marry Edith Eleanor Price (1880-1969) and bring her back to Miniota where they subsequently had three children. He commanded the Miniota Troop of the 12th Manitoba Dragoons from its founding in 1906 and he was a member of the Knights of Pythias and Sons of England.
In 1914, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and went overseas. He was killed in action on 1 September 1918. A collection of his letters to his wife, held by the Canadian War Museum, were published privately as My Darling Girl: Wartime Letters of James Lloyd Evans 1914-1918 (1999).
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Miniota War Memorial (Miniota, Municipality of Prairie View)
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Susan Evans Shaw and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 3 June 2022
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