Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Bergstrom, Charles Oscar

Karl Oskar Bergström was born on 1 December 1895 in Söderhamn, Gävleborg, Sweden as supported by his Swedish birth record. His parents Lars Magnus Bergström and Maria Kajsa Larsdotter had married on 11 December 1886 in Söderhamn. Other children born to the family in Sweden were Johanna Elizabeth (1888), Johan Magnus (1890), Emma Amalia (1892),… Read More »

Muggaberg, Thomas

Private Thomas Muggaberg was the youngest son of Julius Muggaberg and Isabella (Elizabeth) Sinclair. Julius was born in Norway and immigrated to Canada (British North America) when he was in his twenties. Isabella was Scottish Métis and born in the Red River Settlement in what is now Manitoba. Julius and Isabella were married in 1860… Read More »

Newell, Edwin Robert

Edwin Robert (Ted) Newell was born on 21 October 1888 in Keewatin, Ontario, date and place confirmed by his Ontario birth record. His father Edwin Newell was from England while his mother Jane Donnelly was from Ontario. It appears that the couple first lived in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba before moving to northwestern Ontario. The… Read More »

Favel, Walter Lawrence

Private Walter Lawrence Favel enlisted in October 1914, at age 19, and served overseas with the 27th Battalion. He was a prisoner of war from April 1916 until December 1918. Walter was born on 30 March 1895 in St. Louis Guilbert, Manitoba. He was the oldest son of Henry ‘Harry’ Favel and Mary Anna Bella… Read More »

Millward, Edwin George

The son of George Millward and Margaret Donald, Edwin George Millward was born on 18 February 1892 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father George, a cook, was from England while his mother’s Métis roots were in the Red River Settlement in Manitoba. Margaret had previously been married to Charles Linklater, the couple… Read More »

Dickson, David M

The name of David M Dickson appeared in two editions of the Kenora Miner and News in August of 1914 as one of the recent volunteers for the war. A third article published in February of 1915 mistakenly contained his name as having arrived in France with the first contingent. However a David M Dickson… Read More »

Murphy, James Anthony

In October 1917 the Canadian Corps moved to the Ypres Salient in Belgium for the assault on Passchendaele. Artillery shells and heavy rains had turned the battlefield into a wasteland of mud, swamp and water-filled shell holes. The Canadians suffered 15,000 casualties in the operation with over 3,000 men killed and 1,000 missing and presumed… Read More »

Howard, Frederick

Frederick Howard was born on 17 December 1899 in Hull, Yorkshire, England.   He was one of thirteen children of Mathew Edward Howard (a painter) and Sarah Jane Gibson.   His siblings included Beatrice, John Edward, Ann, Dora, Ada, Clifford, Elsie, Edith, Harriet Ann, Donald, Leonard and Ethel. Matthew Howard immigrated to Canada in June… Read More »

Stevenson, Henry Raymond

Henry Raymond Stevenson was born on 5 May 1901 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His father Andrew Stevenson was born in Namdalen, Norway and immigrated to Canada around 1896, settling in Rat Portage with two of his brothers to work as miners. The family surname was Sivertsen, changed to Stevenson upon… Read More »