Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
Family Search: When Private Colin Campbell Berdan was born on 5 September 1888, in Southwold Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, his father, Colin Campbell Berdan, was 31 and his mother, Amelia Jane Dingman, was 32. He married Retta Jane Hardick on 18 June 1921, in Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Lambton, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Sarnia, Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1931. In 1931, at the age of 43, his occupation is listed as fisherman. He died in 1968, at the age of 80, and was buried in Blackwell United Church Cemetery, Blackwell, Sarnia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 