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

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Lough, Russell Emerson

According to his attestation papers, Russell Emerson Lough was born on 12 February 1895 in Buckingham, Quebec. His parents John Robert and Helen (Nellie) (née Storey) Lough had married on 27 November 1889 in Buckingham although neither were of French Canadian descent. It appears that their first child, George Garfield, born in 1891, died less… Read More »

Gordon, Charles

Charles Brown Gordon was born to Alexander & Mary (McLeod) Gordon on June 29, 1889 in Maybole, Scotland, the 12th   of 14 children. With automation coming to Maybole resulting in job losses, several of the Gordon clan set sail for Canada coming directly Keewatin, Ontario in 1906 – including Charlie. Charlie was a teamster… Read More »

Lohman, Stewart Henry

Lance Corporal Stewart Henry Lohman enlisted in December 1914 and served with the 52nd Battalion in France and Belgium. He was wounded at the Somme in October 1916 and invalided to Canada the following spring. Stewart was born on 10 May 1892 in San Francisco, California. His parents were John Benjamin Lohman and Susan Burgess… Read More »

Poole, John

During the First World War more than 11,000 employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company enlisted for service and 1,116 of them gave their lives. Sapper John Poole was working as a locomotive fireman for the CPR in Kenora, Ontario when he signed up in February 1916. He arrived in France later that year and… Read More »

Hunt, Charles Harold

Private Charles Harold Hunt was 37 years old, married and the father of five children when he enlisted in August 1915. He served in Canada and Great Britain for three and a half years and returned home in March 1919. Charles was born on 25 February 1878 in Stockport, Cheshire, England. His parents were William… Read More »

Godin, Richard

Sergeant Richard Godin enlisted in September 1915, at age 44, and served in France and Belgium with the Canadian Engineers. After getting discharged due to his age he re-enlisted with a forestry unit and served overseas for another two years. Richard was the oldest son of Vital Godin and Marie Paulin of Caraquet, Gloucester County,… Read More »

McKenzie, Stewart Henry

Stewart Henry McKenzie was born on 1 February 1898 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His parents George William McKenzie and Alice Althea Alexina Donaldson were both born in Quebec, marrying in Rat Portage on 30 May 1894. It appears that they went back to Quebec for awhile, giving birth to daughter Yolande Violet… Read More »

Doyle, John

Private John Doyle enlisted in Kenora, Ontario on 19 November 1915, signing up with the 94th Overseas Battalion. According to his attestation he was born on 26 February 1892 in Ottawa and he had a brother Andrew Doyle who was living in Ottawa and named as his next of kin. John was 5’6″ with brown… Read More »

Lock, Francis George

Francis George Lock was born on 10 May 1878 in the Southwark borough of London, England. Both of his parents, Frederick and Ann Granger (Wild) Lock, were from Lyme Regis in Dorset but had married in 1877 in Lambeth, London. Frederick was a joiner/carpenter. George was their first born child, followed by Ellen, William, Annie,… Read More »

Mansfield, Horace

Sapper Horace Mansfield was born in Ireland on 23 November 1895, the son of John and Esther Mansfield of Cork, Cork County. He had at least six older sisters (Evelyn, Amelia, Violet, Jessie, Ethel and Mabel) and an older brother Cecil. The family was living in Cork for both the 1901 and 1911 censuses of… Read More »