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

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Anderson, George August LeRoy

George August (Gus) LeRoy Anderson was born on 15 December 1893. Although he gave his place of birth as Winston, Ontario in various documents and records, the name of it was actually Winston’s Siding, a very small community along the Canadian Pacific Railway between Schreiber and Rossport in northern Ontario. Both of his parents, John… Read More »

Gibson, James

James Gibson III was born on 2 March 1896 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father James Gibson II was born in Bruce Mines, Ontario, the son of Irish immigrants James Gibson I (ore dresser) and Jane Cox. James I’s family later moved to Barrie and then on to Innisfil in southern Ontario… Read More »

Ashton, Milton Ernest

Milton Ernest Ashton was born on 25 January 1894 in Tuckersmith, Huron County, Ontario. His father William John Ashton was from the district of Holsworthy, Devonshire, England and had immigrated to Canada with his mother, stepfather, and some step-siblings before the 1881 Canada census where they were found living in Usborne, Huron. Milton’s mother Sarah… Read More »

Bullivant, John Robert

John Robert Bullivant was born on 14 December 1882 in Artemesia, Grey County, Ontario. His father John Bullivant was from Artemesia while his mother Mary Ann Scott was from Owen Sound. The couple married in Artemesia in 1877. Over the years John Sr worked as a farmer, sawyer, and labourer. From various censuses children born… Read More »

Wade, Frederick William

Frederick William Wade was born on 23 June 1883 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. His parents Clifford Wade and Fanny Case were both from the area and had married earlier that year. Over the years Clifford worked as an iron driller/turner. Fred had three younger siblings, John (1885), Clifford (1887), and Henry (1890). At the time… Read More »

Rideout, Joseph Harding

Private Joseph Harding Rideout enlisted in September 1915 and served overseas for three years, about half that time with the Royal Canadian Regiment. He was wounded at the Somme but he survived the war and returned home in March 1919. Joseph was the only son of Harding Rideout and his first wife Lydia Dolen. Harding… Read More »

Young, Lawrence

Throughout most of the war regulations required soldiers to be at least 19 years old before they served in front line units but thousands of young Canadians enlisted underage and many of them were killed in action or died of wounds. Private Lawrence Young enlisted just before he turned 17 and he died a year… Read More »

Bellefeuille, William Joseph

William Joseph Bellefeuille was born on 06 May 1885 in Petawawa, Ontario. He was the youngest child of Gabriel Bellefeuille and Sarah Knight. Siblings included: Ebenezer, Levi (1867-1924), Maria Louisa (1870-1949), Mary Isabella (1871-1938), Sarah Alma (1873-1938), Ida Matilda (1875-1956), Gabriel (1877-) Theophile (1879-1933) and John (1882-). By 1901 the Bellefeuille family was living at… Read More »

Ackabee, Michael

Michael Mathew Ackabee was born on 03 April 1892 at Sandy Lake, north of Dinorwic, and spent his whole life in the district except for his time with the CEF during WW1. His parents were Andrew Ackabee and Mary Gilbert (Clear Sky Skaychommskook). He had at least four siblings – Elizabeth, William, Nancy and Joseph…. Read More »

Perrault, Edouard

According to his obituary, Edouard Perreault (dit Morin) was born on 11 June 1867 in Saint Anne des Chenes, Manitoba (with the citation of SB-Rozyk p 186 B-52, Gail Morin gives a birth date of 11 June 1870). His grandfather, Jean Baptiste Perreault (dit Morin), was born in Quebec where he married Marie Ducharme, also… Read More »