Saskatchewan
Mr. Matthew Backa
Matthew Backa, 28, of Saskatchewan, Canada was a Russian citizen returning to his homeland. He survived the Lusitania sinking. After he returned to Russia he was never heard from again. It is not known if he was lost in the Great War, the following Russian Revolution, or the famine of the early 1920s. His name …
Mrs. Patrick Wilson (Minnie "Inez" Corbett)
Minnie “Inez” Wilson (born Corbett), 46, was a British national from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was rescued from the Lusitania wreck. Inez is mentioned in the Monday, 10 May 1915, The New York Times, page 3: “…lowered in a lifeboat, which was swamped and sank. Supported only by a lifebelt, she remained afloat for three …
