Source: Gathering Our Heroes
Family Search: When Private Solomon Joseph Laprise was born on 11 September 1897, in Pain Court, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Laprise, was 31 and his mother, Helene Roy, was 24. He married Mabel Margaret Ellen Mchugh on 22 February 1922, in Essex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, United States in 1943 and lived in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1916 and Windsor, Sandwich Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as bookkeeper in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 10 August 1985, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 87, and was buried in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 