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

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Madore, Joseph Alfred

According to his attestation papers and other records and documents, Joseph Alfred Madore was born on 30 September 1895 in Keewatin, Ontario while his Ontario birth record gives the date as 1 October, likely an error. Both of his parents, Joseph Polydore Madore and Adelina Joannette were from Quebec, marrying on 13 February 1893 in… Read More »

Blight, Marcus Joseph

Throughout the war railroads were essential for evacuating the wounded and moving troops, equipment and supplies, and skilled workers were needed for their construction, maintenance and operation. Second Corporal Marcus Joseph Blight, a CPR employee from Kenora, Ontario, enlisted with a railway unit in February 1917 and served in France and Belgium for two years…. Read More »

Morton, Robert Paterson

Robert Paterson Morton was born on 1 May 1891 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father William was from Lesmahagow while his mother Helen (née Paterson) was from Tollcross, both in Lanarkshire. The couple had married in 1872 in Cadder. An engine fitter by trade, William and Helen  moved to nearby Glasgow soon after their marriage… Read More »

Weir, George Patrick

George Patrick Weir was born on 9 August 1890 in Fergus, Ontario. His father William Anderson Weir was from Glasgow, Scotland and had immigrated to Canada in 1883. His mother Josephine Van Felson was born in Quebec City where the couple married in 1889. The marriage registration gave William’s occupation as employee of the Imperial… Read More »

Barnhardt, Charles Nelson

Early Life and Family:    Charles Nelson Barnhardt was born on January 15, 1896 to Simeon and Margaret Barnhardt in Kenora, Ontario. They had only recently moved from Southern Ontario.      Although the ancestral background of the Barnhardts was German, Simeon Ashley was born in Ontario, September 8, 1864. His father and grandfather Barnhardt… Read More »

Banks, Alfred George

Alfred George Banks was born on 11 August 1884 in London, England.   His father, Alfred George Banks was a railroad engineer. His mother was Charlotte Elizabeth Fish. Siblings included: Elizabeth (Lilly) who married Ernest Wilson, Harriet Daisy and Philip who died in infancy. Alfred served in the Boer War and then in 1903 emigrated… Read More »

Beaule, Adelard

Private Adelard (Edlora) Alfred Clovis Beaule enlisted in February 1916, five weeks before his 16th birthday. He served in France for three months before being discharged as a minor, and he arrived back in Canada in December 1916. Adelard was the oldest son of Clovis Beaule (Beaulé) and Marie Montgrand Cyr of Redditt, Ontario. He… 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 »

Baker, Daniel MacTavish

Daniel MacTavish Baker was born on 24 September 1886 in Sydenham Township, Grey, Ontario. His father Wesley Baker was born in nearby St Vincent while his mother Mary MacTavish, daughter of Scottish immigrants, was from Sydenham. With occupation given as yeoman, Wesley and Mary married on 29 May 1882 in Sydenham. They gave birth to… Read More »

Buote, Joseph Artemus

By most accounts Joseph Artemus Buote was born on 5 February 1886 in the Rustico area in Prince Edward Island. His French Canadian parents were Joseph Buote and Madeline Perry, both from PEI. Artemus had two older siblings, Maria Cecelia (1883) and Leona (1885), and young siblings Joseph Arthur (1888) Emmanuel (1890), Leo Francis (1894),… Read More »