Cecil Peoli

1894 - 1915  (20 years)

• Name	Cecil Peoli
  Born	13 Oct 1894	New York City, New York, USA.
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	fair, story, aviation
  Occupation	1912	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	pilot
  		Berlin-CelebrationofCityhood-Envelope-fromWRM.jpg Image from Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-175054
  Died	12 Apr 1915	College Park, Prince George's, Maryland, United States
  Person ID	I175054	Generations
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2025

  
  

• Photos

  Cecil Peoli File:Peoli 2496405341 eb44d33c66 o.jpg - Wikimedia Commons. (2019). Commons.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 27 July 2019, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peoli_2496405341_eb44d33c66_o.jpg

  
  

• Notes

  Regarding July 13's Flash from the Past, Lorne Brubacher noted that his grandfather Henry Brubacher's cousin, Samuel, owned the farmland that Cecil Peoli used as a landing field in 1912. Sam's farmhouse and barn were located near the head of Onward Avenue, approximately where the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium is now located. Some of the Brubacher farmland, which once abutted the Poor House property, is now under the Conestoga Expressway, he added. mills, r. (2019). Flash from the Past: From sports to memorials, Dickson Park has hosted it all. KitchenerPost.ca. Retrieved 27 July 2019, from https://www.kitchenerpost.ca/living-story/9513729-flash-from-the-past-from-sports-to-memorials-dickson-park-has-hosted-it-all/ _______________________ one of Kitchener's first airplane crashes, there were no injuries. Like our fellow Kitchenerites a century ago, we can savour the sight of an aerial machine brought to grief. Only seven years earlier, the first airplane demonstrations ever seen here had occurred during 1912's cityhood celebrations. Intrepid American aviator Cecil Peoli electrified young and old with a week of aerial acrobatics. But airplanes remained a novelty and by 1919 few locals had ever seen one; only a handful had actually flown. mills, r. (2017). Who was 1919's Captain White, DFC?. KitchenerPost.ca. Retrieved 27 July 2019, from https://www.kitchenerpost.ca/living-story/7685691-who-was-1919-s-captain-white-dfc-/ __________________________ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Peoli

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 13 Oct 1894 - New York City, New York, USA. Occupation - pilot - 1912 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 12 Apr 1915 - College Park, Prince George's, Maryland, United States  = Link to Google Earth