James A Shaw was born on 29 May 1898 at Larkhall, Lanarkshire, Scotland,
In 1915, James’s Attestation Papers for the WW1 Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force lists his occupation as ‘Farmer’.
James A Shaw married Margaret Thorold on 19 December 1919 at Northumberland, Ontario.
James and Margaret had four children:
James Shaw born about August 1920. Married Margaret Rose Kennedy.
Donald Craig Shaw born 15 December 1921, Cobourg, Ontario
Margaret Elizabeth Shaw about 1924, Cobourg, Ontario.
Thomas Kirk Shaw born about 1926, Cobourg, Ontario.
Following the death of his wife, Margaret, in 1929, James married Victoria May Holloway (in 1938).
