Roy and Werdin Wilcox
Toronto Daily Star, March 19 1938
Elsas, Ontario, is an unincorporated town near Kapuskasing. It hosted a Continental Wood Products Corporation mill between 1920 and 1928; the town was named after CWPC's president, Herman Elsas.
It's quite a trip from Elsas to Toronto. Nowadays, it takes 12 hours and 44 minutes to drive between them. The railway that would have taken the brothers to the city would have travelled on a slightly straighter route; still, it's a very long trip to take, and it showed that the Wilcox brothers (or their parents) were seriously committed to music.
Google searches for the brothers didn't turn up anything; they never made a career in music. Since Werdin Wilcox had an unusual first name, I was hoping to at least find out something about him but, unfortunately, he and his brother appear to be lost to history.
Created August 25, 2025.