When Leonard Trushinski was born on 7 September 1902, in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, his father, Andrew Trushinski, was 37 and his mother, Bertha Kaminski/Murawski, was 37. He married Anne Schnarr on 12 September 1922, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 27 March 1971, in Walkerton, Brockton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Brockton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.