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This is really odd but I am just getting 403-access denied.

I will try again later but each time I click on any previous links, that's all I'm getting 

Thank you.

I remembered one of the links I was originally sent in this thread, regarding him defaulting on his mortgage payments. The solicitors on behalf of the plaintiff who had lent him the  money, wrote to the Department of Militia and Defence in Ottawa asking if they had any records of him serving, to which they replied saying no records of him serving with any unit of the CEF were found.  They then wrote to the War office, Whitehall in London asking them the same. They replied saying "  owing to the insufficient information supplied regarding Mr M. E. Guest it is regretted in will be impossible for this office to trace him2

The solicitors tried for several years to trace him before finally handing the land to the plaintiff.

It appears he either deliberately went missing, or returned to England to join the RN for whatever reason. Maybe by doing this, he thought he was untraceable. Who knows, I probably never will!!

Many thanks for all your help in this.

Thank you so much. I have found his other siblings too and possibly his father.

Is there a way to then find the actual images on familysearch as jorose found on the 1st answer? I seem to be going around in circles there. Not sure how to find particular people rather than having to scroll through the images, or is that the only way 

 Yes on subsequent census, he still lists himself as married.
  I have been in contact with a grandson of his by ordering a death certificate of one of Matthew's
daughter's, he was the informant, and he has been very helpful.
 He said that his gran, Winifred, had Matthew pronounced dead so she could remarry. She obviously didn't have contact with him again or at least made out she didn't.
   
  From the homestead grant and further court documents, he obviously lost the land, probably due to WW1, and possibly never bought a home so became just a "roomer".
  On the homestead grant he stated, whilst not working on the land, he was employed as a shipper by Hingston Smith arms in Winnipeg.

My one wish would be to try to find a photo of him. His grandson said his mother destroyed all photos after she remarried 

Thanks again 



   

Thank you so much. Just had a quick look at the homestead index but can't find his father and siblings who I know from ancestry had some. Will look again when I have more time.

   No I didn't have that census return so thank you. Struggling to find him in 1906 although I know he arrived in 1904.

The imperial gratuities may be the same that I have from ancestry. He died in 1972 so not sure why it says posthumously?

Ans yes I have his return journey although he soon came back to Canada without his wife who I can only assume missed her family.

 He migrated in 1904 and served as a motor boat mechanic in WW1. Part of this time, he was stationed in Falmouth and it was here I think that he met my great gran who was only 17 at the time. He was then stationed in Southampton where he married Winifred in 1918, not my great gran but also a lady from Falmouth.
   They migrated soon after and had 2 children. My gran was born in 1918 and I can only assume Matthew never knew about her.
He returned to Canada on his own.