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

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Dumma, William Silver

William Silver Dumma was born to William Dumma and Janet (Silver) Dumma on December 20th, 1880 in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland.  His father William Senior was listed as a Superintendent of Housing in Edinburgh in 1881. There were seven children, including: Margaret (1866-71); Helen Hay (1867-1852); James (1868-1953, came to Canada in 1894, worked… Read More »

Mack, William

Sapper William Mack enlisted with the Canadian Engineers in February 1917 and served in France and Belgium for a year and a half. He returned to Canada in May 1919. William was born on 24 May 1893 in Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin. His father, Matt Makynen, was born in Finland and immigrated to the U.S…. Read More »

Steep, Wilfred Russell

Wilfred Russell Steep was born on 13 May 1896 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, date confirmed by his Manitoba Birth Registration record. His father Doctor John Robert Steep was born about 1860 in Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine in 1886 and licensed to practice Allopath Medicine the next year. Wilfred’s mother… Read More »

Fowler, Harold McLaren

Private Harold McLaren Fowler (aka William Harold Davis) was one of three brothers who enlisted during the First World War. Harold and his brother Roy Fowler both died in Europe in 1917. Their brother Percy Fowler died of service-related illness in 1921. Harold was the youngest of four sons of Bartholomew Fowler Jr. and Jamesina… Read More »

Schostak, Julius

Julius Schostak was born on 12 August 1880 in Lauenburg, Germany. His wife, Louise Kunkel, was born in 1889, most likely in what is now Poland. Julius and Louise were married in 1909 and they had three children – Irmgard (1910), Benjamin (1912) and Gerhard (1913) – born in the city of Petrikau. Petrikau is… Read More »

Anderson, Emil Andreas

Emil Andreas Andersson was born on 28 December 1891 in Avesta, Kopparberg (also known as Dalarna), Sweden. His father Anders (Andrew) Andersson was from Hedemora, Kopparberg while his mother Anna Karin (Jansdotter) Jansson was from Grytnäs, Kopparberg where the couple married on 9 July 1883. First settling in Hedemora, they gave birth to children Anna… Read More »

Gauthier, Louis Romeo

Private Louis Romeo Gauthier enlisted at age 16 and served in France and Belgium with the 52nd Battalion. He was seriously wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele and he died three months later, at age 18. Louis was the oldest son of Louis Leonide Gauthier and Josephine Albertine Harrison of Otterburne, Manitoba. According to census… Read More »

MacGillivray, Edmund Farquhar

Corporal Edmund Farquhar MacGillivray was the son of Farquhar MacGillivray and Jane Mary MacFarlane of Ottawa, Ontario. Farquhar was from Williamstown in Upper Canada and his wife was born in Montreal. Edmund was born in Ottawa on 1 March 1876. He had two older brothers, John and Archibald, and a younger brother, Grant. Their father… Read More »

Spendlow, Ernest Parker

My dad, Ernest Parker Spendlow, was born on October 5, l889 in Morborne Peterborough, County of Huntingdonshire England.  His parents were William Spendlow and Eliza Mary Spendlow (maiden name Parker).  He had an older brother, William, an older sister, Harriet and a younger sister Florence. Ernest immigrated to Canada in 1911 coming directly to Kenora… Read More »

Still, Andrew

Stoker Andrew Still was born in Scotland and living in Canada when the war started. He returned to the UK and joined the Royal Naval Reserve in February 1918, serving with them for fifteen months. Andrew was born on 8 June 1887 in the parish of Grange, Banffshire, Scotland. His parents were Robert Still, a… Read More »