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

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Dingwall, William Haldane

William Haldane (Hal) Dingwall was born on 17 June 1882 in the Township of Charlottenburg in the county of Glengarry, Ontario. Located in southeastern Ontario, the nearest city in the area was/is Lancaster. Charlottenburg and Lancaster were two of the original eight ‘Royal Townships’, established along the Saint Lawrence River in Upper Canada in the… 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 »

Belbeck, Orville Leslie

Private Orville Leslie Belbeck enlisted with a field ambulance unit in the spring of 1915 and went overseas that summer. He served in Great Britain for four years, most of that time with the Canadian Army Service Corps. Orville was the only son of Albert Alexander Belbeck and Rebecca Theresa Wilson of Victoria, British Columbia…. Read More »

Travis, Herbert Gordon

Herbert Gordon Travis was born on 18 October 1889 in Birtle, Manitoba. His father Herbert Travis, a music teacher/professor, was from England while his mother Edith Florine Emily Wood was from Arkona in southwestern Ontario, having moved to Manitoba with her parents and siblings as a child. The couple married on 11 March 1885 in… Read More »

Green, Percy Ernest

Percy Ernest Green was born on 4 September 1897 in Mountain Grove, Ontario.  His parents were David Wesley Green and Seferina Paquet.  Siblings included: James (b. 1894), Harold Earl (b. 1901), Gladys Josephine (1903-1954, married Henry Craig), Thomas Arthur (b. 1905), Milton Lester (1907-1979), Lloyd William (1910-1981), Jane Orvilla (b. 1912), Hazel Claudia (b. 1915),… Read More »

Dougherty, John Joseph

Private John Joseph Dougherty enlisted in July 1916 and arrived in France a year later. He was killed in September 1918 by a large bomb dropped from a German airplane. According to his service record John was born on 16 May 1887 in Bradford, Ontario, a small village about 50 km north of Toronto. When… Read More »

Blake, Thomas

Private Thomas Blake enlisted with the 94th Battalion in Kenora, Ontario in March 1916. He served in England for six months before being discharged for medical reasons. Thomas was the son of George and Emma Blake of Hellesdon, Norwich, Norfolk County, England. George and Emma (née Sanham) were married in Norwich in 1869 and they… Read More »

McIsaac, Murdock

Murdock McIsaac was born in Little River, Codroy in Newfoundland. Differing dates of birth were given of 8 May 1887 and 8 May 1888 on attestation, and according to his later naturalization and death records, his date of birth was 3 November 1989. He was the son of Alexander C and Isabella McIsaac who farmed… Read More »

Archambault, William Ernest

William Ernest Archambault was born on 29 December 1889 in Bay City, Michigan, birth confirmed by Michigan registration. His father George was from Ottawa while his mother Celina was from Quebec. William had an older sister Cora Maud, born in 1883 in Bay City, and an older brother George who was likely born in Quebec… Read More »