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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Stormont (Monte) Green MacKenzie was one of three sons and two daughters of William and Lizzie MacKenzie of Kenora, Ontario. His parents were born in Scotland and immigrated separately to Canada in the 1880s, meeting and marrying in Brandon, Manitoba in 1889 where William worked as a dry goods store clerk. Monte, born in 1891,… Read More »
George Robert Stephen was born on 20 October 1893 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. His parents were Alexander Stephen and Sarah Henrietta Fogg. Siblings included Henrietta ‘Etta’ (b. 1896), Joseph ‘Alex’ (b. 1899) and Emma Jean (b. 1900). George’s mother, Sarah, died in 1910. About this time George was sent to Saskatchewan to work on… Read More »
Joseph Rene Boileau was born on 16 March 1894 in Keewatin, Ontario. His parents were Pierre and Alzire (née Lalonde) Boileau. Pierre, born in Quebec, a widower, was listed as a mechanic on their marriage registration in Keewatin on 17 October 1891. Alzire was from Rigaud, Quebec. At the time of Rene’s birth Pierre was… Read More »
John Ernest Fahey was born on 20 September 1897 in the Bass River area of Weldford, Kent in New Brunswick where his family farmed. His parents, both from New Brunswick, were John Fahey and Estella Johnston. Children born to the couple were Jane (1886), Gordon (1888-1888), Edward William (1889), Mary Winnifred (1891), Lillian Emeline (1894),… Read More »
Aime Ernest Paquette was born on 6 February 1898 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. He was the only child of Joseph Ernest Paquette and Delina Rancourt, both born in Quebec. Delina had married Pierre Ildevert Baribeau in 1874 in St Tide, Quebec although she had been living with her family in Winooski, Vermont… Read More »
Harry Henfrey was born on 17 November 1885 in Folkstone, Kent, England. His father Nelson Orson Henfrey, painter and decorator, was from Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire while his mother Elizabeth Taylor was from Willenhall, Staffordshire. The couple married during the 1st quarter of 1885 in the registration district of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire. Harry was their firstborn… Read More »
Ernest Walter James was born on 08 January 1891 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England. He was the third son of blacksmith, Noah James and Augusta ELLEN Elliott. His siblings included Nellie ‘Ellen’ (b. 1887), Henry Edward (b. 1888), Arthur Frederick (b. 1889), Reginald Wilfred (b. 1896), Margaret May (b. 1897) and Winifred Maud (b. 1903). Ernest… Read More »
Private John Thomas Favel enlisted in December 1915, at age 16, and served in France and Belgium with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was wounded twice but he survived the war and returned home in December 1918. His father and older brother also enlisted and served overseas. John Thomas, usually known as Thomas, was… Read More »
Private Walter William Lang of Quill Lake, Saskatchewan enlisted in March 1916 at age 24. He served overseas with the 28th Battalion and he was killed in August 1918, during the Hundred Days Offensive. Walter was the oldest son of George Lang and Catherine Daum. George and Catherine were both born in Woolwich Township, Waterloo… Read More »
