Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Hallam, William

Acting Sergeant William Hallam enlisted in February 1917, at age 28, and served with the Canadian Forestry Corps in Great Britain. William was the son of William Hallam Sr. and Cecillia McNabb of Armstrong, British Columbia. William Sr. was born in England and immigrated to Canada in the late 1880s. Cecillia was born in Ontario… Read More »

Hill, Louis John

Louis John Hill was born December 7, 1883 in Strathroy, Bruce County, Ontario (birth registered as John Lewis Hill). His parents were John James Hill and Anna Bella Doman. John James, a cooper (barrel maker) by trade, had been born in Ontario in 1854 to Irish immigrant parents, and Anna Bella was born in Ireland… Read More »

Dulmage, James Silliam

James Silliman Dulmage was born on 09 December 1872 in Orillia, Ontario.  His parents were Augustus Frederick Dulmage and Elizabeth Ann Oliver.  Siblings included: Rhoda Jane (1869-1959; married John Philbin), Louisa Emma (1871-1909; married David Kay), Flora Maud (1874-1889), George Augustus (1876-1911; married Minnie McCraynor), Glen Oliver (b. 1878), Alexander (1880-1943; married Kate Gardiner), Frederick… Read More »

Bates, James Wesley

James Wesley Bates was born on 26 January 1886 in Penetanguishene, Ontario. His parents were Robert and Cathrine Ann (née Quigley) Bates who had married in 1882 in Orillia. Over the years Robert was involved in the lumbering business. Known children born to the family were Elizabeth Ann (1884, Parry Sound, Ontario), James, Walter (1888,… Read More »

Mackie, Frederick Thomas

Private Frederick Thomas Mackie was born on 25 August 1875 in the Township of Inverness, Mégantic County, Quebec. His father, Dr. John R. Mackie, a physician, and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Borland, were both born in Quebec. Fred had at least three older siblings: Edith Anna, Arthur Edward and William Burton. Fred was baptized at… Read More »

Dawson, Harry

Acting Corporal Harry Dawson was a CPR conductor in Kenora, Ontario when he enlisted with a railway unit in February 1917. He served in France and Belgium for two years and returned to Canada in July 1919. Harry was the son of Jonathan William Dawson and Hannah Scatley Hinde of Norwich, Norfolk, England. Jonathan was… Read More »

Wills, Benjamin

Benjamin was born to Joseph Wills and Beatrice King  on 11 December 1890, in the Cornwall district of England. In the 1901 English census he  was living with his mother and sisters Minnie (4 years older), Lillie (two years younger) and Olive (8 years younger). He was in Canada when he enlisted as an expat,… Read More »

Wismer, Ira Franklin

Ira Franklin (Pat) Wismer was born on 23 April 1898 in the RM of Glenwood (Souris), Manitoba. His father Norman Wismer and mother Deborah Mezina Clark were from Warwick Township, Lambton, Ontario. At some point after their marriage the couple headed west, first found in Treherne, RM of Norfolk, in Manitoba followed by a few… Read More »

Wulff, Oscar

Private Oscar Wulff was the son of Charles and Helen Wulff of Glasgow, Scotland. Charles was born in Hamburg, Germany and Helen in Scotland. They were married in 1883. Oscar was born in Glasgow in 1892 and he had at least four older siblings: Ella (1885), Matilda (1886), Carl (1888) and Margaret “Daisy” (1890). His… Read More »

Jorgenson, Martin

Private Martin Jorgenson was one of five brothers who enlisted for service in the First World War. The five boys – Jacob, Martin, John,  Gustave and Thomas – came from a large family in Whitemouth, Manitoba. Martin was killed in France in June 1917 but his four brothers survived and returned home after the war…. Read More »