Source: Per John Jinks news clipping regarding his pall bearers.
Family Search: When Sergeant Harvey Stuart Ruland was born on 22 May 1885, in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, his father, George Ruland, was 31 and his mother, Agnes Cassils, was 31. He married Ella Elizabeth Daniels on 6 March 1909, in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada for about 20 years and Simcoe, Ontario, Canada in 1921. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 30, his occupation is listed as painter in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. He died on 22 August 1946, in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 61, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 