Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Peters, David

For 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 David Peters enlisted at age 17 and he died at the Battle of… Read More »

Horricks, Herbert Ray

Herbert Ray (Raymond) Horricks was born April 7, 1900 in Rat Portage, Ontario, the youngest  child of William Horricks and Jane (Jennie) Walters. His siblings were Eva, Margaret (Maggie), William (Jr), Lottie, Annie, Maud and Pearl. His father was a blacksmith from Drummond Township in Lanark County, Ontario and his mother was born in Holland… Read More »

Jones, Andrew

Andrew Jones was born in Dailly, Ayrshire, Scotland.   His parents were Andrew (Sr) Jones and Janet Anderson Gibson.   His father was a coal miner in Scotland.   Andrew was the oldest of at least 3 children; his siblings being Elizabeth and Rosina. The family was living in Scotland according to the census taken… Read More »

Eaton, Margaret

Nursing Sister Margaret Eaton was 50 years old when she joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps in May 1916. She served for four years at several hospitals in Great Britain and Canada. Margaret was the daughter of Wesley Ferguson Eaton and Margaret Markle of East Flamborough Township, Wentworth County, Ontario. She was born on 11… Read More »

Dillon, Artemus Robert

Private Artemus Robert Dillon was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on 28 February 1874. His parents were William Dillon and Elizabeth Hoben and he was one of at least nine children. William and Elizabeth were married on Prince Edward Island in 1870. In 1873 the colony of Prince Edward Island became a Canadian province…. Read More »

Linklater, Frank

According to his attestation papers, Frank Linklater was born on 23 August 1881 in the RM of St Andrews, Manitoba. He was the first born child of Charles Patrick Linklater and Margaret Donald who had apparently married on 12 March 1880, both having Métis roots in the Red River Settlement. It appears that the couple… Read More »

Strain, Edgar James

Edgar James Strain was born on 09 August 1897 in Gravenhurst, Ontario.  His parents were Robert William Strain (1868-1940) and Minnie Maria Smith (1875-1908). The extended family (grandfather, grandmother, aunts, uncles) having resided in the Gravenhurst area for two or three decades, moved to Rat Portage in 1899. They spent the first winter in Slabtown… Read More »

MacGillivray, Grant

Private Grant MacGillivray arrived in France in March 1917 and served with the 13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders). He died of wounds a month later during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. James Alexander Farquhar Grant MacGillivray, known as Grant, was born on 10 May 1880 in Ottawa, Ontario. His parents, Farquhar MacGillivray and Jane Mary MacFarlane,… Read More »

Cain, Alice Louise

Alice Louise Cain was born on 4 December 1886 in Douglas, Isle of Man. Her father Robert Edward Cain was from Douglas while her mother Anna Scadden was from Wirral in Cheshire. The couple married on 23 March 1875 in Liverpool. Over the years Robert’s occupation was given as joiner, builder, and contractor. The family… Read More »

Chaloner, Arthur Reginald

Arthur Chaloner was born on October 8 1893 in Lauder, a town located on the CP Railroad southwest of Brandon Manitoba. His parents John Henry Chaloner and Mary Gertrude (Heatley) Chaloner were one of the first resident families to arrive there. They landed in Lauder in 1891 with three children: Louise, who was born in… Read More »