Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Parry, William

William Parry was one of many recent immigrants to Canada to answer the call to service in the Great War. Born in Derby, Derbyshire, England on April 3, 1885, to James and Elizabeth Parry, he was one of nine brothers and sisters listed in various census from 1881 to 1901 — Mary (1877), Elizabeth (1878),… Read More »

King, James Charles

Gunner James Charles King joined the Canadian Field Artillery in July 1916 and served in France and Belgium for almost two years. He was wounded in the last months of the war but he survived and returned to Canada in January 1919. James was the son of James (Sr.) and Mary King of Greenwich, London,… Read More »

Menard, Joseph Delphis

Joseph Delphis Menard was likely born on 1 June 1879. The parish register from St Jacques le Mineur in Quebec gave his baptism date as 2 August 1879, the month possibly an error as all other baptisms on the pages were from late May and early June. Both of his parents Joseph Simon Menard and… Read More »

Nohlgren, Frederick Helge

Corporal Frederick Helge Nohlgren was born on 17 March 1894 in Texas. His parents, Axel Nohlgren and Sophia Larson, had both emigrated from Sweden. When he was still a baby they moved to Canada and settled in North Norfolk, Manitoba. Seven more children were born there: Nellie, Axel, Olga, Anna, Oscar, Edith and Nelson. Anna… Read More »

Stanford, Charles Robert

Charles Robert Stanford was born on 12 February 1881 in Hackney, London, England. His father Joseph Stanford, a bootmaker, was from Norwich in Norfolk while his mother Sarah was from Exeter in Devon. Over the years the family lived in a number of London communities, Shoreditch, Bethal Green, Hoxton, Hackney, and Islington. Nine children were… Read More »

MacPherson, Peter

Peter MacPherson was born on 14 October 1897 in the district of Hutchesontown in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Peter MacPherson, a shoemaker, was born in 1877 in Stair, Ayrshire while his mother Elizabeth McLintock was born in 1862 in Inch, Wigtown. As a child Elizabeth’s family’s surname was McClinton, changed to McLintock when the family… Read More »

Atkinson, William Henry

Although he gave his birth place as Ottawa and year of birth as 1874  on his attestation papers, William Henry Atkinson was probably born on 6 November 1878 in Arnprior, Ontario. His father John Robert Atkinson had been born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, immigrating around 1863, while his mother Eva Margaret Windsor was from Grand River,… Read More »

Shouldice, Joseph

Joseph Erwin Shouldice was born on 28  April 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Joseph Shouldice was from the Gatineau River/Wakefield area of Quebec and had come west to Winnipeg in 1877 to work on CPR construction. His mother Christina Sutherland was from West River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. The couple… Read More »

Woods, Milfred Hueston

Milfred Hueston Woods was born on 15 December 1895 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 family was living in Rat Portage East, Russell’s occupation given as locomotive… Read More »