Gretchen,
This is Tim Cahalan (I changed my email, so they changed my log in name.), your distant cousin. I don't think this is our Tom. Our people came from Ireland via England, then Mass., then Kentucky where they lived with Quakers and farmed. During the Quaker period, Tom joined the Merchant Marine. Tom caught up with the rest of them when they moved to Edina, MO and opened businesses. Then the war began. I never remember hearing of any Canadian connection. All though Canada and Mass. are close. But, my Grandfather was William H. Cahalan b. 2/16/1901, so maybe they were distantly related and named my grandfather after the victim???