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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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According to his attestation papers, Joseph Bougie was born on 6 September 1894 in Schreiber, Ontario. His parents were Jean Baptiste Bougie and Lea Marie Marcoux who had married on 26 April 1880 in Quebec City. By the 1901 Canada census the family was living in North Bay, Ontario where Jean (John) was working as… Read More »
William James Baxendale was born 07 October 1898 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. His parents were James Thomas and Amelia Maria Baxendale. He had two older sisters – Violet and Myrtle. His father worked as a car inspector/repairer for the CPR. William received his education in Kenora. In November of 1915 he commenced working for… Read More »
Although his attestation papers gave his birth as the 1st of July, Malberry Whittington (Whit) Primrose was born on 24 July 1894 in the township of Barrie, Frontenac, Ontario. His father George Henry Alexander Primrose was from London, England while his mother Emily Jane Haynes was from Kaladar, Ontario. The couple married in 1876 in… Read More »
Reginald Donald MacDonell enlisted with the 94th Battalion on 5 November 1915 in Kenora, Ontario, rank of Private. His date and place of birth was given as 3 November 1871 in Cornwall, Ontario, and his next of kin as Mrs. John MacDonell in Toronto. Single, at the time of his enlistment Reginald was working as… Read More »
Donald MacKenzie was born on 13 November 1893 in Upper Bayble, Stornoway, County of Ross, Scotland. His father Alexander MacKenzie and mother Flora MacRae had married 22 January 1884 in Stornoway, Alexander’s occupation listed as fisherman. By the 1901 Scotland census household members were parents Alexander and Flora, and children Angus (16), Isabella (14), Roderick… Read More »
Acting Lance Sergeant Lorne Arnold Woodley enlisted at the start of the war and went overseas with the 1st Canadian Contingent. He served in England, France and Belgium for four years, returning home in January 1919. Lorne was the son of Henry Richard and Matilda Woodley of Victoria, British Columbia. Henry and Matilda (née Curry)… Read More »
Ernest James Gander was born on 18 May 1884 in Upper Dicker, Arlington, Sussex in England. His parents were Albert and Jane Ann (née Martin) Gander. The children born to the family were Albert Edward, George Henry, Bessie, Ernest, Edith, and Ellen Louise. For the 1891 census the family was residing in Arlington, father’s occupation… Read More »
Edwin Charles Martin was born on 14 June 1871 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. His father Charles William Martin was born in Wolverhampton in Staffordshire while his mother Mary Clark was from St Helier in the Jersey Channel Islands. The couple married on 21 August 1870 in Portsea, Hampshire. Edwin was their first born child, followed… Read More »
Charles Rogerson Cotter was born on 17 October 1897 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father Alexander McCaul Cotter was born in Austria, the son of an Irish Reverend and his wife. An age appropriate Alex Cotter arrived in Canada on the Circassian on 29 April 1889, on his way to Winnipeg. By the time of the… Read More »
In an article published on 29 May 1915 by the Kenora Miner and News in Kenora, Ontario, Edward Crash’s name was given as being with the 43rd Battalion as the train passed through. It was said that he was a former Kenora boy that had worked for the CPR as a brakeman. His identity and… Read More »
