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Delaney, Reginald George

Born on 5 October 1893  in North Bay, Ontario, Reginald George  Delaney was the son of John James (James) and Mary Ellen (née Doyle) Delaney. His siblings were Bridget, Ida, May, John James, Lettie, Queeny, Gertrude, Percy, and Annie. For the 1891 Canada census the family was living in North Bay, Ontario with the father’s occupation… Read More »

Currie, William Webster

The middle child of the family, William Webster Currie was born on 25 December 1889 in Markdale, Grey South, Ontario. His father Robert Brydon Currie was from Dumfries, Ontario while his mother Margaret Webster had been born in Clatt, Aberdeenshire in Scotland. The couple had married in 1884 in Nichol in the district of Wellington… Read More »

Campbell, Donald Malcolm

Donald Malcolm Campbell was born on 26 June 1889 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father Malcolm Campbell, hardware merchant and tinsmith, was from the Township of Stanley in Huron County while his mother Margaret McLean was from Lucknow in Huron, a community about 60 kms from Stanley. The couple married on 30 June 1882 in Winnipeg…. Read More »

Brough, John Alexander

John Alexander Brough was born on 26 February 1896, birth registered in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. His father John Allen Brough was from the Northwest Territories while his mother Harriet Sanderson was from Manitoba. The couple married on 1 February 1889 in Portage la Prairie. Alex had two older siblings, Mary Ann (b 1891) and… Read More »

Twaduklum, Philip

Records are sketchy for Philip Twaduklum but here is what we know: – he was born in Bosrab, Russia on 12 December 1886, son of Nikit Twaduklum (Attestation) – he came to Canada in 1908 (1921 Census) – not found in 1911 Canadian Census Philip enlisted with the 227th ‘Men of the North’ Battalion in… Read More »

Hansen, Einer

Along with his twin brother Rudolph Eugene, Einer Sixtus Hansen was born on 18 October 1900 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Johan Haaken (John) Hansen, a marine engineer, was born in Norway and had immigrated to Canada with his widowed father and some of his siblings in the late 1880’s, first… Read More »

Nickle, John James

Sapper John James Nickle was the only son of Daniel Nickle (Nichol) and Jane Johnston of Ottawa, Ontario. Daniel was from Quebec and his wife was born in Ottawa. They had at least five children, all born in Ottawa: John James (b. 21 May 1878), Mary Ann, Sarah, Agnes and Rebecca. When the 1891 census… Read More »

Jackson, Wellington

Wellington Jackson was born on 11 April 1888 in North Monaghan, Peterborough, Ontario. His father William Henry Jackson, son of Irish immigrants, was from South Monaghan while his mother Christiana Annie Moncrief was from nearby Otonabee. The couple married on 3 June 1880 in Peterborough. Wellington had an older brother William Adair, and younger siblings… Read More »

Kemp, Peter Gillespie Muir

Peter Gillespie Muir Kemp was born on 15 April 1898 in Ballymacarrett, Belfast in northern Ireland. His father John Kemp, a ship rivetter, was from Port Glasgow in Scotland while his mother Sarah Havelin was from Glasgow, the couple marrying on 15 June 1888 in Port Glasgow. Children born to the couple in the Port… Read More »

Barker, Frederick Charles

Frederick Charles Barker was born on 12 September 1894 in Melita, Manitoba. His father Frederick (Fred Sr) Joseph Barker was from Shoreditch, London, England and had immigrated to Canada in 1873 with his parents who settled in the Faraday/Dungannon area in Ontario. His mother Mary Lydia Allcock was born in Faraday to recent English immigrants…. Read More »