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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Frederick Henry Flanagan was born on 13 September 1894 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Joseph Henry Flanagan was from the Walkerton, Ontario area while his mother Christina Matheson was from Prince Edward Island. The couple married in Rat Portage on 19 December 1893 where Joseph was working in one of the… Read More »
William Haldane (Hal) Dingwall was born on 17 June 1882 in the Township of Charlottenburg in the county of Glengarry, Ontario. Located in southeastern Ontario, the nearest city in the area was/is Lancaster. Charlottenburg and Lancaster were two of the original eight ‘Royal Townships’, established along the Saint Lawrence River in Upper Canada in the… Read More »
William Haldane was born on 4 October 1896 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was the second son of William Haldane Sr and Catherine (Kate) Lightfoot who had married on 27 July 1892 in Winnipeg. The couple gave birth to John in 1893 and another son, Clifford in 1898. Sadly, William Sr died in April of 1900,… Read More »
Louis Lalois was born on 20 September 1896 in Keewatin, Ontario, a small town just west of Kenora. His father Louis Lalois Sr was from Montmagny, Quebec, earlier spelling of the surname as Lislois. Louis Sr had been farming in the Keewatin area by the 1881 census but a short time later found work in… Read More »
Purdy Lindsay Baker was born on 26 September 1896 in West Jeddore, Nova Scotia. Jeddore is a Canadian rural coastal community in Nova Scotia’s Halifax Regional Municipality. The community itself comprises several smaller communities, East Jeddore, West Jeddore, Head of Jeddore, and Jeddore Oyster Pond. Purdy’s father John Henry Baker was from Jeddore Oyster Pond… Read More »
Although he gave his place of birth as Worcester on his attestation papers, Bertie Tomlinson Barley was born on 27 January 1882 in Claines, Worcestershire in England, a small community outside of the city. His father John Barley was from New Brighton, Cheshire while his mother Eleanor (Ellen) Pardoe was from Claines. The couple married… Read More »
Corporal Harold Douglas Mack enlisted in Winnipeg in April 1915 and served in France with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was wounded in August 1918 and returned to Canada five months later. Harold was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on 13 August 1896. His parents, Edward James Mack and Kathleen Elizabeth Haseltine, were both… Read More »
Oscar Emanuel Skoglund was born on 25 September 1893 in Norman, Ontario, a small community just west of Kenora. It appears that his father August Skoglund was born in Sätterstad, Sunne, Värmland in Sweden, likely immigrating to Canada in 1887. His mother Betty Nilsdotter was from Г–stra Г„mtervik, Sunne, Värmland, immigrating to Canada in 1888…. Read More »
Sent to Canada as a British Home Child, Private Arthur William Piddock returned to England to serve overseas during WW1. Sustaining a severe wounding to the spine causing temporary paraplegia, he recovered, returned to Canada, and lived to the age of 96. Arthur William Piddock was born on 22 May 1885 in the Chesterton district… Read More »
Private Arthur Heffren enlisted in April 1917 and served in Canada for one year, much of that time suffering from illness. He was discharged as medically unfit in April 1918. Arthur was one of twelve children of John Alexander Heffren (Heffern) and Margaret Malinda Clement. Records vary but John was born in either Ontario or… Read More »
