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

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Sullivan, John

John Sullivan was likely born on 18 November 1891 in the Registration district of Bantry, County Cork in Ireland. His attestation papers gave the date as 18 November 1892 and his British Columbia death record as 18 November 1890 but the birth indexes for the area had only one listing for a John Sullivan, registered… Read More »

Lowe, Thomas (1881-1966)

Born in Liverpool, England, Thomas Lowe was living in Keewatin when the war broke out. On his attestation papers Lowe noted service the 4th Liverpool Regiment before coming to Canada in 1910. In 1911 he was living with his sister, Maggie Boswell and her family and working at the Lake of the Woods Milling Company…. Read More »

Anderson, Ernest Ragner

Ernest Ragner Anderson was born on 09 April 1897 in Skone, Sweden.   His parents were Nels Anderson and Alfreda Moller.  He had eight siblings: Berger, Einar, Allan, Leonard, Harold, Gertrude, Margaret and Elsie. The family immigrated to Canada in April of 1912 and settled in Swan River, Manitoba. Just before his 21st birthday, on… Read More »

Reid, Matthew Robinson

Matthew Robinson Reid was born on 27 February 1894 to William and Eliza (Moggey) Reid in Portage la Prairie. He was the 9th of 11 children. In 1906 the family was living in High Bluff, Manitoba. His name on the census form was given as Robinson. Reid enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in Winnipeg,… Read More »

Creighton, George Francis

Although he gave his year of birth as 1885 on his recruitment papers, George Francis Creighton was likely born on 2 July 1883 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. A birth record was not found but census documents as well as his obituary and grave marker support that birth year. His father George Creighton,… Read More »

Apjohn, Frank James

According to his Ontario birth record Frank James ApJohn was born on 1 July 1887 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. As written in the Men of Canada article found in Encyclopedic Canada/Progress of a Nation, his father Francis (Frank) Joseph ApJohn had studied law in Montreal, first attending St Laurent College, then Jesu… Read More »

Ingram, Henry Lloyd

Lieutenant Henry Lloyd Ingram enlisted in March 1916, at age 44, and served for three years in Canada and Great Britain. He lived in England after the war and died there in 1929, at age 58. Henry was born on 18 July 1871 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, the son of Henry Thomas Ingram and Sarah… Read More »

Hansen, Henry John

According to his attestation papers, Henry John Hansen was born on 01 May 1892 in Keewatin, Ontario. (His baptism, obituary, and grave marker supports the date of birth as 01 May 1893). His parents were Johan (John) Haakon Hansen and Ida Malis Olson. Siblings included: Karine Hulda (b. 1895), Myrtle (b. 1896), Arthur (b. 1898)… Read More »

Sherrett, Joseph Allan

Joseph Allan Sherrett was born on 02 May 1897 in Dundee, Scotland.   He was the youngest child of James Sherrett, a railway engine driver, and Rebecca Macallister. His siblings included James A. (born 1880), Annie F. (born 1882), Margaret M. (1884 – 1937), Jean Belle (1886 – 1972), John Ross (1888 – 1955), Isabella… Read More »

Waites, Fred

Fred Waites was born on 11 December 1897 in Chorley, Lancashire in England. His father Samuel Waites was from Chorley while his mother Martha Booth was from nearby Preston. The couple married during the second quarter of 1889 in the registration district of Chorley. Children born to the family were Jane Ellen (1889), Florence (1891),… Read More »