Source: Bruce Remembers
Family Search: When Private Barnard Rueben Keeshig was born in 1892, in Cape Croker, Neyaashiinigmiing, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Wesley Keeshig, was 25 and his mother, Christina Lamorandiere, was 19. He married Hellan Taylor on 13 January 1913, in Cape Croker, Neyaashiinigmiing, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 23, his occupation is listed as fisherman. He died on 27 August 1918, in Vis-en-Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 26, and was buried in Wancourt British Cemetery, Wancourt, Pas-de-Calais, France
Indigenous Soldier from the “Cape Croker Reserve” now known as The Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation occupy Neyaashiinigmiing Aboriginal Reserve No.27.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 