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

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Woods, Walter Ralph

Walter Ralph Woods was born on 13 January 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His parents Russell Woods, originally from Quebec, and Elizabeth Fletcher,  born in Ontario, had married in Winnipeg on 29 December 1886. By the 1891 Canada census the Woods family was living in Rat Portage East, father Russell’s occupation given… Read More »

Adams, F

The Lake of the Woods Milling Company in Keewatin, Ontario created a roll of honour after the war, commemorating the fallen as well as all that served. One of the fallen was listed as F Adams.    

Lavoie, Alfred Henry

Private Alfred Henry Lavoie enlisted in September 1915 at age 20 and served in France with the Canadian Forestry Corps. Alfred was the youngest son of Wilfred Lavoie and Mary Ann McKeon of Kenora, Ontario. Mary Ann’s family emigrated from Scotland when she was a child and by 1881 they were living in Rat Portage… Read More »

Henfrey, Harry

Harry Henfrey was born on 17 November 1885 in Folkstone, Kent, England. His father Nelson Orson Henfrey, painter and decorator, was from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire while his mother Elizabeth Taylor was from Willenhall, Staffordshire. The couple married during the 1st quarter of 1885 in the registration district of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. Harry was their firstborn… Read More »

Moore, Allen Thomas Joseph

Allen Thomas Joseph Moore was born on 12 August 1895 in Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai, Idaho. He moved to Rat Portage, now Kenora, in 1897 along with his widowed mother Isabella Moore (nee McDonald). Isabella’s brother Alfred, who worked for the CPR, and her sister Margaret were already living there at the time. In 1898 Isabella… Read More »

Skeet, Peter

According to his attestation papers, Peter Skeet was born in March of 1898 at Bear Point on Lake of the Woods, Kenora. He was the son of George and Mawkos Skeet who were both living at the time of attestation. With occupation given as trapper and his father George at Bear Point as next of… Read More »

Tatham, Albert William

Albert William Tatham was born on 16 December 1886 in Listowel, Ontario. His father William George Tatham, a hardware merchant, was from Guelph, Ontario while his mother Jane Flaherty was from Maryborough, Ontario. The couple married on 12 October 1876 in Listowel. Children born to the couple were Charles Carlyle (1877), George Sidford (1979-1881), Arthur… Read More »

Byington, Napoleon

Napoleon Byington was born on 10  December 1888 in Portland, Leeds, Ontario. His parents were Napoleon and Ruth (Dunn) Byington who had married in 1871 in South Crosby, Leeds and who farmed in the Portland area. Napoleon and Ruth’s children were David (1872), George (1875-1942), Milton (1877), Charlotte (1880-1973), Johanna (1881-1960), Melbourn (1882-1962), and Napoleon…. Read More »

Whitaker, Roy Wesley James

Roy Wesley James Whitaker was born in April 1897 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. His birth was registered as 02 April but the 1901 census and his military service files have the date as 12 April.   His parents were William and Elizabeth Jane (Macfie) Whitaker.   Siblings included Alice, Vera, Beryle and Gerald.  William… Read More »

Lusty, Thomas

Thomas, with the surname of Dalton, was born on 20 April 1894 in the Liverpool Workhouse in Liverpool, England. His mother was Catherine Canning who was born in 1859 in Liverpool. Catherine married William Gilray, a mariner, in November of 1877 in Liverpool. In February of 1880 she then married William Lawson, Catherine listed as… Read More »