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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Thomas Cecil Cherry was born on 21 December 1895 in Keewatin, Ontario. His parents were Thomas Joseph Cherry and Caroline Hawkin. Siblings included John Joseph Roland, Agnes, Marion and Norah. Cecil’s father was born in Ireland and immigrated to Canada 1871. He was a Reeve for Keewatin in 1907 and 1908 becoming Keewatin’s first Mayor… Read More »
Private Sydney Murgatroyd was the son of Benjamin John Murgatroyd and Harriet Ann Taylor. Benjamin and Harriet were both born in England. They were married in 1894 in Rat Portage, Ontario, where Benjamin worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway. They had at least five children: Jessie May (1894), Bertram (1896), Sydney (1898), Harriet Edith (1904)… Read More »
George Kippling was born on 8 July 1887 in the District of Rainy River. His parents were Edward and Margaret (Linklater) Kippling, both having roots in the Red River Settlement. By the 1881 Canada census the couple was living in Eastern Extension of the Manitoba Extension of Manitoba, later to be part of Ontario. Listed… Read More »
Frederick Joseph (Fred) Barker was born on 11 January 1863 in Shoreditch, London, England. He was the first born child of Stephen Barker and Emma Elizabeth Bartholomew who had married on 2 April 1861 in Tower Hamlets, Bethnal Green, London. While living in England father Stephen’s occupation was given as carman at the time of… Read More »
By most accounts Daniel Francis McEachern was born on 27 April 1885 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario although a birth record was not found. His father John McEachern was from Scotland while his mother Margaret McLean was from Nova Scotia. According to a family tree the couple married on 29 August 1869 in… Read More »
George Thomas Folster was born on 27 June 1893 in Rat Portage (now Kenora), Ontario. He was the son of Henry Folster and Catherine Muggaberg who had moved to the region from Manitoba in the early 1890’s. His siblings included ten sisters: Alice Jane (b. 1879), Isabella (b. 1881), Fanny (b. 1883), Catherine (b. 1886),… Read More »
Date and Location of birth: According to the 1901 England census, Horace Frederick Carey was born in West Ham, Essex, about 1896. His birth was registered in the 4th Quarter, 1895 and he was baptised October 27, 1895 at Barking Road, Essex, England. This birth information differs significantly from the date and location given in… Read More »
Private Charles Edward Cox was called up in January 1918 and sent to France to serve with the 78th Battalion (Winnipeg Grenadiers). He was injured in a motor lorry accident in October 1918 and he spent almost a year recovering at hospitals in England and Canada. Charles Edward (or Edwin) was born on 18 February… Read More »
Archibald Hendrie was born on 6 December 1893 in Barrhead, Neilston Parish in Renfrewshire, Scotland. His father Archibald Hendrie, a calico machine tenter, was from Bonhill, Dunbarton while his mother Jessie Little, a cotton mill worker, was from Neilston. Archibald and Jessie married on 30 December 1892 in Barrhead. Jessie, a widow, had previously married… Read More »
Birth date and location: Richard John Alexander Barker was born John Alexander Barker on October 15, 1897, Port Elgin, Bruce County, Ontario, to Richard John Barker and Margaret Nelly (maiden name, Thomson). Richard/John may have begun using his father’s name, Richard, to distinguish himself from another John Alexander Barker (perhaps a relative), also born in… Read More »
