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

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Evans, Charles Gilbert

Charles Gilbert (Bert) Evans was the youngest son of John James Evans (1835-1915) and Margaret Drysdale (1841-1914). Siblings included Richard Gibson (1867-1935), Thomas Ephriam (1868-1896), Robert James (1870-1951), Samuel Howard (b. 1875), Henry Angus (1876-1948), Horatio Gates (1877-1904) and William Stanley (1882-1960). According to his later attestation, he was born on 28 May 1887 in… Read More »

McKee, Albert William

Corporal Albert William McKee, a locomotive engineer from Kenora, Ontario, enlisted with a railway unit in January 1917 and served in France and Belgium for two years. Albert was born on 10 September 1885 in the village of Shelburne in Dufferin County, Ontario. His parents, William Alexander McKee and Eliza Ellen Mallett, were both born… Read More »

Fisher, Alexander Wilson

Alexander (Sandy) Wilson Fisher was born on 28 April 1898 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. His parents were William Fisher and Elizabeth Armour. Coming from a large family his siblings included: John (b. 1878), William (b. 1882), Charles (b. 1883), Mary (b. 1886), James (b. 1890), Janet (b. 1894), Elizabeth (b. 1896), David (1899-1899), Isobel (b…. Read More »

Beaule, Adelard

Private Adelard (Edlora) Alfred Clovis Beaule enlisted in February 1916, five weeks before his 16th birthday. He served in France for three months before being discharged as a minor, and he arrived back in Canada in December 1916. Adelard was the oldest son of Clovis Beaule (Beaulé) and Marie Montgrand Cyr of Redditt, Ontario. He… Read More »

Towns, Sirastin

Lance Corporal Sirastin Towns signed up with a railway unit in January 1917. He served overseas for two years and returned to Canada in January 1919 due to illness. Sirastin was the oldest son of Calvin Towns and Mary Ann Bandy of Kenora, Ontario. Calvin and Mary Ann were married in 1883 in the town… Read More »

Montalbetti, William Floyd

According to an Ontario delayed birth registration of 1952, William Floyd Montalbetti was born on 3 July 1883 in Kenora (Rat Portage at the time), Ontario. According to the record, his parents, both born in Italy, were Carlo (Charles) Montalbetti and Maria Malnati, the couple giving birth to twelve children with five still living at… 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 »

Purvis, Thomas Harry

Thomas Harry Purvis was born in 1897 in the Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland registration district, birth registered during the 3rd quarter. His parents were William John Purvis and Sarah Hannah Forster who had married in 1896. Thomas had a younger sister Martha who was born in 1900. It appears that Thomas’ father died in 1910…. Read More »

Kenny, James

James Kenny is the son of James Kenny and Jane Davies. On the 1911 census of Keewatin Ontario, James Kenny is age 22, born Scotland, single, and a lodger. He states he is working on the tugboat Verbena and that he had come to the area in 1906.   James’ brother, John Kenny is also… Read More »

Dunn, St. Clair

Captain St. Clair Dunn was a practising physician when he was commissioned as an officer in the spring of 1916. He went overseas that fall and arrived in France a year later. St. Clair was killed in action near the Vimy front in March 1918. St. Clair was the son of Robert Dunn and Charlotte… Read More »