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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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James Kenny is the son of James Kenny and Jane Davies. On the 1911 census of Keewatin Ontario, James Kenny is age 22, born Scotland, single, and a lodger. He states he is working on the tugboat Verbena and that he had come to the area in 1906. James’ brother, John Kenny is also… Read More »
Daniel Leon LaBelle was born on 21 February 1880 in the township of Chichester, Pontiac, Quebec. For reasons unknown he was baptized in the nearby township of Sheenboro with the surname of Micheau, parents given as Michael Micheau, farmer, and Mary Brennan. His father usually went by the name of Michael Labelle, the name given… Read More »
Frank Lloyd Sweet was born 01 January 1895 in Keewatin, Ontario. His parents were Samuel Charles Sweet and Margaret Anne Christie. His siblings included Margaret (1890-1890), Sarah Jane (1901-1901), Alexander Charles, Samuel Rayburn, Mary Beatrice, Helen, Marjorie Elizabeth, Robert, Fred, Thomas Edwin and James Christie. Frank received his education in Keewatin schools and… Read More »
James Blythe Maxwell was born on 15 January 1896 in Keewatin in northwestern Ontario near present day Kenora. In early years he went by the name of Blythe while in later years as James. His father James Wellington Blythe Maxwell, a saw filer, was from Chelsea, Quebec a community about ten kilometres north of Ottawa…. Read More »
Henry Ross Swan was born on 24 May 1865 in Greenock, Renfrewshire in Scotland. His parents Allan Swan and Cecilia Brymner, both from Greenock, married on 31 January 1856. Over the years Allan worked as a writer as well as procurator before the Sheriff’s Court, enabling the family to employ a couple of servants. Henry… Read More »
Hastings Shankland McIlwraith was born September 16, 1892 at 25 High Street, Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland to David & Agnes (Shankland) McIlwraith. (from the official birth register of the Parish of Girvan, County of Ayr, page 57). Setting sail from Glasgow Scotland on the ‘Grampian’, Hastings arrived at Quebec City, Canada on May 6, 1913…. Read More »
Seaman Charles Edward Letman was born in Liverpool, England in 1901, the oldest son of Edward Thomas Letman and Esther Mann. When he was still very young his parents moved to Seacombe, Cheshire, which was on the River Mersey across from Liverpool. His father worked there as an electric tramway conductor. Charles had at least… Read More »
Private Eugene McMonagle was the son of George McMonagle and Ellen Jane McRae of Finch Township, Cornwall and Stormont County, Ontario. He was born on 17 January 1888 in Berwick, Finch Township, his birth registered as Uejane Ezekiel McMonagle. His father was a farmer at the time. Eugene’s parents were married in Avonmore, Stormont County… Read More »
Private Alexandre Landry was called up in November 1917 in Winnipeg. He arrived in France ten months later and served with the 52nd (New Ontario) Battalion in the last weeks of the war. Alexandre was born on 23 May 1894 in Village-Saint-Paul, Grand Anse, Gloucester County, New Brunswick. His parents, Levi Landry and Marie Louise… Read More »
Gunner James Charles King joined the Canadian Field Artillery in July 1916 and served in France and Belgium for almost two years. He was wounded in the last months of the war but he survived and returned to Canada in January 1919. James was the son of James (Sr.) and Mary King of Greenwich, London,… Read More »
