Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Guest, W

After the war the towns of Kenora and Keewatin held a reception at the Tourist Hotel in recognition of all who served during the war. As published in the 2 April 1919 edition of the Kenora Miner and News, a W Guest appeared on the list of returning veterans. His identity and service could not… Read More »

Anderson, Charles McLaren

Sapper Charles McLaren Anderson joined the Canadian Engineers in February 1916 and served overseas for three years. He returned to Canada in June 1919 and died in a railway accident a year later, at age 27. Charles was the son of George and Annie Lyon Anderson of Stracathro, Forfarshire, Scotland. His parents were both originally… Read More »

Robinson, Arthur William

Arthur William Robinson was born on 28 September 1883 on the Isle of Wight, England. His father Timothy Robinson was also from the Isle of Wight, while his mother Elizabeth Wilkins was from Walworth in Surrey. The couple married during the first quarter of 1872 in the Isle of Wight. Arthur’s father was a mariner,… Read More »

McCulloch, Donald

Donald McCulloch was born on 16 August 1894 in the village of Norman, now amalgamated with Kenora, in northwestern Ontario. His father Thomas McCulloch was from Glen Donald, Glengarry, Ontario while his mother Mary Ann Salter was from the Red River Settlement. By the time they gave birth to their first child, son John Alexander… Read More »

LaBelle, Joseph Edward Parnell

Joseph Edward Parnell LaBelle was born on 18 January 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern ) Ontario. His parents were Michael LaBelle and Mary Brennan who had married on 4 September 1877 in St Paul the Hermit church in Sheenboro, Pontiac, Quebec. They had been living with their families in nearby Chichester… Read More »

Budreau, Frederick

Although he gave his birth place as Kenora on his attestation papers, Frederick Budreau was likely born in the nearby village of Norman on 19 March 1894. His father Joseph Ebenezer Budreau, the son of French Canadians, was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, while his mother Mary Forest Hackett was born in Pennsylvania. Mary’s… Read More »

MacPherson, Peter

Peter MacPherson was born on 14 October 1897 in the district of Hutchesontown in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Peter MacPherson, a shoemaker, was born in 1877 in Stair, Ayrshire while his mother Elizabeth McLintock was born in 1862 in Inch, Wigtown. As a child Elizabeth’s family’s surname was McClinton, changed to McLintock when the family… Read More »

Fraser, John James

John James Fraser was born on 22 August 1877 in Dundee, New Brunswick, a small sister community of Dalhousie in the county of Restigouche in northeastern New Brunswick. His attestation papers gave his father John Fraser as next of kin but John was actually his stepfather. Born in Nova Scotia, James’ father was David Grant… Read More »

Jeffrey, Jesse Richard

Private Jesse Richard Jeffrey enlisted in Kenora, Ontario and served in France and Belgium with the 52nd Battalion. He returned to Canada in April 1919 with a war bride and a baby son. Jesse was the son of Edwin John Jeffrey and Hannah Jane Alcock (Allcock) of Faraday Township, Hastings County, Ontario. He was born… Read More »