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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Private Edward William Ovens was the son of Isaac Ovens and Katherine (Kate) Winner of East Selkirk, Manitoba. Isaac was born in Ontario to Irish parents and Kate was American and of German ancestry. Their first three children were born in Colorado: Hilyard Verl (1891), Thomas Earl (1893) and Ruby Lenore. The family moved to… Read More »
Gunner Sidney Joseph Bray joined the Canadian Field Artillery in November 1914 and served for almost four years in Canada, England, France and Belgium. He was seriously wounded in September 1918 and he spent a year recovering in hospitals. Sidney was the oldest child of John Joseph Bray and Mary Ann Southam Shelbourne of Peterborough,… Read More »
Private Henry Walters enlisted in Kenora, Ontario in November 1915, at age 17, and served for three years in Canada, the UK, France and Belgium. Henry was born on 9 September 1898 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. His parents, Frederick Walters and Emily Golding, were married in Birmingham in 1895 and their first six children were… Read More »
Private George McDougall enlisted in July 1916 and served with the Canadian Forestry Corps in England and Scotland. He returned to Canada in September 1919 with a war bride. George was born on 14 March 1886 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland, a small village in the southwest part of the country. His mother Martha McDougall was… Read More »
According to his attestation papers Abraham (Abie) Coppleman was born on 14 April 1896 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. (A delayed Manitoba birth registration from 1899 gave his date of birth as 15 May 1896 while his British Columbia death record recorded it as 14 April 1896.) Both of his parents, Samuel Coppleman and Maggie Rosen, were… Read More »
Henry Edward James (known as ‘Harry’) was born on 06 May 1888 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England. He was the eldest son of blacksmith, Noah James and Augusta ELLEN Elliott. His siblings included Nellie ‘Ellen’ (b. 1887), Arthur Frederick (b. 1889), Ernest Walter (b. 1891) Reginald Wilfred (b. 1896), Margaret May (b. 1897) and Winifred Maud… Read More »
The name H I Collins appears on the Lake of the Woods Milling Company Roll of Honour as one of the fallen in WW1 from the area. His identity and service could not be confirmed.
Benjamin was born to Joseph Wills and Beatrice King on 11 December 1890, in the Cornwall district of England. In the 1901 English census he was living with his mother and sisters Minnie (4 years older), Lillie (two years younger) and Olive (8 years younger). He was in Canada when he enlisted as an expat,… Read More »
George Hilliard Myles was born on 23 July 1891 in Midland, Ontario. His parents were Leith Myles and Mary Isabelle Jane Rathwell. Siblings included William (1889 – 1956), Mabel (1893 – 1950), Edward (1894 – 1966), Laura (1897 – 1983) and Hugh (1898 – 1904). The family moved to Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario in 1898… Read More »
Although he gave his date of birth as 12 April 1896 on his attestation papers, Henry Joseph (Harry) Byers was born in 1898 in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario. A birth record was not found but elsewhere in his records the year was 1898 and was also given in census records and his obituary. His mother… Read More »
