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

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McDonald, George Angus

Although his attestation papers gave his place of birth as Kenora, Manitoba, George Angus McDonald was born on 15 November 1893 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Duncan Alexander McDonald was from Ontario while his mother Mary Elizabeth Kerr was from Scotland, the couple marrying on 21 October 1886 in East Selkirk,… Read More »

Hook, Douglas Edgar

Douglas Edgar Hook was born on 13 September 1899 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario.  His parents were Henry (Harry) Hook and Harriet (Hattie) McGinnis. Henry Hook was an affluent business man who controlled real estate and mining claims in the area. He was manager of Burns and Company, a wholesale meat business. His other children… Read More »

Sheppard, Peter

According to his attestation papers, Peter Sheppard was born on 22 June 1886 in Glasgow, Scotland. A birth record was not found and given his gray hair he was likely older than stated. When he attested with the 190th Battalion on 21 July 1916 in Winnipeg, Peter had been living in Kenora, Ontario and working… Read More »

Loutett, Walter

The third child in the family, Walter Loutett (also commonly spelled Louttit, Loutitt) was born on 6 February 1888 in St Andrews, Red River Settlement. His parents Thomas Lowe Loutitt and Catherine Corrigal were both descendants of Orkney Island Scotsmen that immigrated to the area to work for the Hudson’s Bay Company and who married… Read More »

Connolly, Harold James

Harold James Connolly was born on 22 September 1896 in Toronto, Ontario. His father John Frederick Connolly, a first generation Canadian of Irish descent, was from Montreal while his mother Mary Preston Hardigan was born in Ireland, immigrating to Canada as a child. John and Mary married on 28 October 1884 in Montreal, John’s occupation… Read More »

Day, Frederick Alfred

Frederick Alfred ‘Ford’ Day was born on 09 January 1896 in Bracebridge, Muskoka, Ontario. His parents were Frederick Day and Amelia May ‘Molly’ Traviss. They had married on 26 December 1894 in Newmarket, Ontario and Ford was their first child. Other children born to this couple were Ella (b. 1897), Thomas (1898 – 1981), Clarence… Read More »

Parkes, Samuel

Samuel Parkes was born on 18 February 1891 in Birmingham, England. His parents Isaac Parkes and Betsy Oseland were both from Birmingham, their marriage registered during the 3rd quarter of 1889 in King’s Norton, an area in Birmingham. The 1891 England census listed the family in King’s Norton and in 1901 in Aston, another area… Read More »

Loudon, William Dykes

William Dykes Loudon was born on 13 January 1896 in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire in Scotland. His father John Loudon, a cheese merchant, was from Strathaven in Lanarkshire. In 1869 he had married his first wife, Grace Peat and together in Strathaven gave birth to children Mary Goole (1869-1945), Gavin (1871-1878), Maggie Dykes (1873), Grace Peat (1875-1903),… Read More »

Scoglund, Oscar Emanuel

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 »