Volunteer of the Week - Isaac Matson

The volunteer of the week is Isaac Matson. Known also as "Jim," Matson was born in Sweden on February 2, 1898, and immigrated to Canada in October 1926. He worked as a logger and a miner in British Columbia and joined the Communist Party in 1932.

Matson arrived in Spain in March 1937, where he served five months at the front with the Lincoln Battalion and also in the Auto Park. He was hospitalized and was scheduled for repatriation to Canada when he was captured in March or April of 1938. Matson was held in the San Pedro de Cardena prison camp, where he died of cancer in August 1938. He was buried by his fellow prisoners in a makeshift coffin assembled out of fish boxes.

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