Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
Family Search: When Melville Van Dusen was born in December 1881, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Samuel Albert VanDuzen, was 21 and his mother, Jane Marietta Reid, was 22. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 33, his occupation is listed as labourer motorman.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 