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

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Hay, Gordon Climie

Captain Gordon Climie Hay enlisted in 1915 and served in France and Belgium for more than two years. He was wounded in September 1916 during the Somme Offensive and returned to Canada in August 1919. Gordon was the son of John Climie Hay and Araminta (Minnie) Adelaide Copeland of Listowel, Perth County, Ontario. John was… Read More »

Clark, William

William was the second child and only son of James  Clark and Jane/Jean (Heddle) of Keewatin, Ontario. His parents had married  on June 16, 1893 in Old Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He had an older sister, Jeannie, and two younger sisters, Isabella and Jamesina, all born in Scotland. James immigrated to Canada in 1904 and Jane… Read More »

MacKay, James Stuart

Private James Stuart MacKay served in France, Belgium and Germany for two and a half years, most of that time with the 43rd Battalion and the 1st Canadian Divisional Train. He earned a Military Medal for his actions at the Vimy front in April 1917. James was born on 1 January 1896 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire,… Read More »

Lacasse, Oscar

Born on 1 November 1887  in Keewatin, Ontario,  Oscar Lacasse was a middle son of Anselme (more commonly known as Samuel) and Wilhemina Melina (née Desmarais) Lacasse, parents being French Canadian, originally  from the Ottawa/Gatineau area. Samuel and Melina married on 27 April 1885 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Melina’s family having moved to… Read More »

Haight, Ernest Joseph

Private Ernest Joseph Haight was born on 25 September 1900 in Cedar Lake, Manitoba. His parents, Edward Benjamin Haight and Elizabeth Annie Garvie, were both born in Ontario. They were married in 1885 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and they had at least six children: Edward Laurence, Gordon Joyner, Elizabeth Olive, Edith Annie, Ernest Joseph and Harold… Read More »

Hutchison, John

John Hutchison was born on 1 November 1880 in Gateshead, Durham, England. His father John was from Edinburgh, Scotland while his mother Jane Buchanan was from Glasgow. The couple married in 1878 in Edinburgh. John had an older brother James who was born in Scotland before the family moved to Gateshead where John Sr worked… Read More »

Lundmark, Victor Daniel

As per his Swedish birth record, Viktor Daniel Lundmark was born on 13 February 1887 in Aspliden in the parish of Byske in Västerbotten in northern Sweden. However on all other parish records as well as records after immigration, his birth date is always given as the 14th. His parents Anders Lundmark and Erika Carolina… Read More »

Beaton, Daniel Percival

Daniel Percival (Percy) Beaton was born on 15 December 1897 in Keewatin, Ontario. He was the son of Dougald Beaton and Mary Anne (Annie) Carmody who had married in 1883 in Rat Portage (now known as Kenora). Percy’s father died in 1900. Percy’s siblings included:  Florence May (1885-1918) who married Cyril Leslie Galloway;  Sarah V…. Read More »

Woods, Walter Ralph

Walter Ralph Woods was born on 13 January 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His parents Russell Woods, originally from Quebec, and Elizabeth Fletcher,  born in Ontario, had married in Winnipeg on 29 December 1886. By the 1891 Canada census the Woods family was living in Rat Portage East, father Russell’s occupation given… Read More »

Taylor, Robert James

Born in Keewatin, Ontario, Robert James Taylor was the son of Robert Taylor and Ada Eastwood. Robert Sr. and his wife Ada had six children between 1893 and 1900 but sadly only two of them survived infancy, Robert James (1894) and his sister Ada Rose known as Rosie (1897). Their mother Ada died on 29… Read More »