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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Albert Bertram (Bert) Lennox was born on 25 February 1885 in Banda, Simcoe, Ontario. Both of his parents William and Jane (Wilcox) Lennox were from farms in the area and had married on 12 March 1884 in nearby Barrie. Their first born child, Bert had younger siblings Jessie Jane (1887-1962), William Henry (Harry) (1889-1960), and… Read More »
Arthur Alexander Shouldice was born on 9 February 1885 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Joseph Shouldice was from the Gatineau River/Wakefield area of Quebec and had come west to Winnipeg in 1877 to work on CPR construction. His mother Christina Sutherland was from West River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. The couple… Read More »
Horace Albert Olsen was born on 12 October 1897 in the Ullswater area in Muskoka, Ontario. His father Tobias Olsen, the son of Norwegian immigrants, was born in 1862 in Quebec while his mother Mary Ann McCaskill, the daughter of a Scottish immigrant and his Upper Canadian born wife, was born in 1861 in Glengarry,… Read More »
Private Harry John Goldthorpe enlisted in January 1916 and served overseas for about two years. He was wounded at the Somme but he survived the war and returned to Canada in July 1918. Harry was the son of Harry John Goldthorpe Sr. and Margaret Sheehan. He was born on 20 September 1877, possibly in Montreal,… Read More »
The son of Thomas and Mary (née Graham) Dufour, George Thomas Dufour was born on 20 October 1879 in Mattawa, Ontario. According to the 1891 Canada census both of his parents were born in Quebec but by the birth of their first child, a daughter Celia in 1875, the family was living in Mattawa. Another… Read More »
Pierre Noel Bernard enlisted with the 94th Battalion for overseas service during WW1 on 17 February 1916 in Kenora, Ontario. He stated that he was born on 25 December 1877 in St. Ann, Quebec. Birth records (Drouin Collection) show that he was actually born in 1868, so he was 48 years old when he signed… Read More »
James Hunter was born on 5 December 1893 in Dailly, Ayrshire in Scotland. His father James Hunter, coal miner, was from Dailly as was his mother Elizabeth Jones. The couple had married on 2 August 1889 in Dailly. The next year they gave birth to their first child, daughter Rosina, followed by daughter Margaret (Maggie)… Read More »
Lance Corporal Peter Ramier enlisted in February 1916 and served for three years in Canada, Great Britain, France and Belgium. He was wounded three times but he survived the war and returned home in March 1919. Peter was the son of John Thomas Ramier and Charlotte Chatterton of Port Daniel, Bonaventure County, Quebec. John and… Read More »
Michael Zaremba was born on the 21 May 1894 in Russia. By 14 July 1915 when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force for service in WW1, he was living in Montreal, Quebec and had the occupation of labourer. He joined the 41st Battalion and arrived in England on 28 October 1915. The following June… Read More »
According to his attestation papers Hiram Primrose was born on 15 September 1885 in Deseronto, Ontario*. His father George Henry Alexander Primrose was from London, England while his mother Emily Jane Haynes was from Kaladar, Ontario. The couple married in 1876 in the township of Barrie where George had been farming. Children born to the… Read More »
