When Nelson Kalar was born on 27 November 1850, in Beverley, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, his father, James Kalar, was 53 and his mother, Susannah Elizabeth Whiting, was 49. He had at least 4 sons and 3 daughters with Jane Ann Coyle. He lived in Beverley, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 18 March 1937, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 86.