Cecil Kinross was tall, slim and had piercing blue eyes. Cecil Kinross had scars on both his shins due to a run-in with a plough in the pre-war years. Kinross, near Jasper, is named after him, as is Edmonton’s Kinross Road. The Kinross family sank into debt and had their land repossessed by the railroad. Cecil Kinross, Canadian war hero, returned to Alberta, but he never fully came home.

Source: National Post November 09, 2017 18:05 UTC