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Barnard, Christopher George

Christopher George Barnard was born on 07 September 1884 in Camberwell, London, England. His parents were James Richard Barnard (1853-1903) and Mary Ann Burns (b. 1859). Siblings included Arthur James (1888-1970) and Edwin Thomas (1883-1981). At the time of Christopher’s marriage to Lillian Ware on 20 July 1909 he was still living in Camberwell and… Read More »

Chapman, William James

William James Chapman was born on 01 November 1864 in Belfast, Ireland. He was the oldest son of Benjamin Chapman and Maria Chew. In 1866 the Chapman family immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto where Benjamin practiced his trade of watchmaker and jeweler. Other children in the family were Elizabeth, Charles, Julia, Edward and… Read More »

Brinckman, Adolph Fred

Adolph Frederick Brinckman was born on 27 Jun 1888 in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. The 1900 US census finds him living in Lancaster, Nebraska with his father, Ludwig Brinckman, mother, Isabella and sisters Amelia (b. 19 Oct 1886) and Margaret (b. 02 Jan 1895). Adolph’s parents were both from Germany but they married in 1885 in the… Read More »

Shaw, Allan

Allan Shaw was born on August 23, 1894 to Mabel Jessie (Waugh) and Thomas Andrew Shaw, in Keewatin, Ontario. Thomas, born in Kemptville, Ontario, and Mabel, in nearby Oxford Mills, had married in the RM of South Dufferin in Manitoba in May of 1890. Children born in Manitoba were Donald (1891) and Bessie (1893). Moving… Read More »

Field, Ralph Archibald

Ralph Archibald Field was born on 2 June 1898 in the Vauxhall area of London, England. His father Joseph William Henry Field was from St Helena Island while his mother Emily Edith Pierce was from Islington, London. Joseph was a French polisher, a labour intensive trade that involved applying many thin coats of shellac dissolved… Read More »

Anderson, Andrew John Victor

Andrew John Victor Anderson was born on 15 April 1896 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. He was the youngest child of Anders (Andrew) Anderson and Carolina Samuelsdotter Larsen. Siblings included: Charles Edward (1885-1956), Selma (1888-1888), Albert James (1890-1962), Ethel (1892-1973), and Alan Herbert Olaves (1894-1955). Andrew’s father died in 1899 and the family moved to… Read More »

Klabunde, Gustave Frederick Carl

Gustave Frederick Carl Klabunde was born on 6 April 1886 in Pembroke, Ontario. His parents Carl Wilhelm (Charles William) and Emilie (née Shultz) Klabunde were from Wusterbarth, Germany, and along with their one year old daughter Anna had arrived in New York on the 30th of March aboard the  Eider, just days before Gustave’s birth…. Read More »

Roberts, Frederick Owen

Frederick Owen Roberts was born on 10 March 1900 in Keewatin, Ontario, a small town just west of present day Kenora. His father Owen Ellis Roberts, born in 1858 in Bala, Merionethshire in Wales, immigrated to Canada in 1882, arriving in Quebec on 26 June on the Circassian. He settled in Winnipeg where he married… Read More »

Maluish, Harry Walter

Heinrick Maluish was born in Rat Portage (Kenora) on 06 October 1897. His parents came from two different worlds. Ernest Duncan Maluish arrived from England and settled in Rat Portage in 1880. His mother Katharina Frankenberger arrived from Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany in 1887. The two met at a local boarding house and married in the Anglican… Read More »

Harcourt, Cecil Copp

Lieutenant Cecil Copp Harcourt served with Canadian Corps Cyclists before being given a commission in the British army, with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was wounded twice, at the Somme and at Ypres, and invalided home to Canada in June 1918. Cecil was born on 29 May 1893 in Toronto, Ontario, the youngest of three… Read More »