Joseph Victor Emmanuel Dupont (1885 – 1918)

Victor Dupont was born in Cedres, Quebec.1) He was a hose man with the Dawson Fire Department in 1914.2) Dupont was a member of the FOE, Aerie 50.3) He was employed as a labourer for the Canadian Klondike Mining Company and was working on a dredge near Dawson in 1918 when he was drafted to serve in the First World War.4) He joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in February 1918 and was transferred to the Canadian Railway Troops in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He received training at Camp Niagara and died there of influenza in October. He is buried in St. Telesphore Cemetery in Quebec.5)

1)
Library and Archives Canada, WWI Reg. #2140256, 7 February 1918.
2)
Twelfth Annual Report of the Dawson City Fire Department, March 31, 1914. Journal of the Yukon Council, Sessional Papers No. 1. March 31, 1914: 34.
3)
Yukon Archives Genealogy Database.
4)
Library and Archives Canada, WWI Reg. #2140256, 7 February 1918; Yukon Archives Genealogy Database.
5)
D. Blair Neatby and Michael Gates, The Yukon Fallen of World War I. Whitehorse: Whitehorse Legion Branch 254, 2018: 48.