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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.

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Fahey, John Ernest

John Ernest Fahey was born on 20 September 1897 in the Bass River area of Weldford, Kent in New Brunswick where his family farmed. His parents, both from New Brunswick, were John Fahey and Estella Johnston. Children born to the couple were Jane (1886), Gordon (1888-1888), Edward William (1889), Mary Winnifred (1891), Lillian Emeline (1894),… Read More »

Mason, Harry

Henry McBain (Harry) Mason was born on 30 November 1892 in the city of Dundee, Forfarshire (now Angus) in Scotland. His father David Mason was from nearby Brechin while his mother Mary Ann, maiden name also Mason, was from Montrose. The couple had married in Dundee in 1874. Harry had at least four older siblings,… Read More »

Oldfin, Edmund Charles

(Thomas) Edmund Charles Oldfin was born on 19 June 1891 in Kingston, Ontario. His father John William Oldfin and mother Honoria Nora O’Connor, both from Ontario, had married in 1884 in Kingston. Over the years John worked as a gas fitter/tinsmith/plumber. Children born to the couple were Mary (1885), Catherine (1886), John O’Connor (1888), Edmund,… Read More »

Robertson, Cecil Edwin

Cecil Edwin Robertson was born on 5 March 1899 in Dauphin, Manitoba. His parents Edmund John and Edith May (née Percy) Robertson were from Lavant, Lanark, Ontario, marrying in nearby Poland in June of 1893. By 1901 Edmund, Edith and Cecil had moved to Goat Road in Keewatin, Ontario where Edmund found work in the… Read More »

Graves, Percy Phillip

Private Percy Phillip Graves enlisted in 1916 at age 17 and served for three and a half years. He suffered gas poisoning and became very ill during the influenza epidemic but he recovered and returned to Canada in July 1919. After the war he had a long career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Percy… Read More »

Cleaveley, Albert Reginald

Albert Reginald Cleaveley was born on 22 April 1889 near O’Connell in the township of Rama, northeast of Orillia in Ontario. His father George Cleaveley was from Charlton Kings, Gloucester in England while his mother Fanny Dockerill was from Leighton Buzzard in Bedford. The couple married on 16 November 1867 in Billington, Bedford, and gave… Read More »

McLeod, Duncan (1897-1941)

Private Duncan McLeod (Jr.) was born in Canada and living in Scotland when the war started. He served in the British army and moved back to Canada after the war. Duncan was the son of Duncan McLeod Sr. and Mary Munro of Keewatin, Ontario. His parents were both born in Scotland and they immigrated to… Read More »

McRae, Alexander Norman

Private Alexander Norman McRae was called up in January 1918 and hr served in France with the 10th Battalion. He was wounded in September 1918, during the Hundred Days Offensive, and invalided back to Canada the following summer. Alexander was the son of Farquar/Farquhar McRae and Matilda Elizabeth Thompson. He was born on 16 January… Read More »

McDonald, George Angus

Although his attestation papers gave his place of birth as Kenora, Manitoba, George Angus McDonald was born on 15 November 1893 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Duncan Alexander McDonald was from Ontario while his mother Mary Elizabeth Kerr was from Scotland, the couple marrying on 21 October 1886 in East Selkirk,… Read More »