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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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According to his British Columbia death record, Norman Joseph Camille Jolin was born on 15 December 1894 in Norman, Ontario, a village a couple of kilometres west of Kenora in northwestern Ontario. His father Achille (Archie) Jolin was from St Henedine, Quebec while it appears that his mother Emma Bernard was born in Minnesota although… Read More »
Samuel Pearson’s name appeared in the 24 June 1916 edition of the Kenora Miner and News for enlisting with the 221st Battalion. His identity and service could not be confirmed.
Harold Griersley Lovatt was born on 25 July 1896 in Collingwood, Ontario. His father Frederick Charles Lovatt, a carpenter, was from England and had immigrated to Canada with his family as a young child, settling in the Meaford, Ontario area. His mother Mary Elizabeth Bingham grew up in the Whitchurch, York, Ontario area. The couple… Read More »
Acting Sergeant John Thomas Dalziel was the only son of John Law Dalziel and Mary Agnes Hunter of Kenora, Ontario. John Law was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland and immigrated to Canada as a young man. He lived briefly in Winnipeg, Manitoba before settling in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora). Mary was born in Ayrshire, Scotland… Read More »
Acting Lance Sergeant Lorne Arnold Woodley enlisted at the start of the war and went overseas with the 1st Canadian Contingent. He served in England, France and Belgium for four years, returning home in January 1919. Lorne was the son of Henry Richard and Matilda Woodley of Victoria, British Columbia. Henry and Matilda (née Curry)… Read More »
‘My position in this war has been very small, but I have had the privilege of serving some six months on the front ‘during the period I spent in France amid the horrors of war and human suffering and misery and the war’s leveling effects, I felt that if I survived and returned I could… Read More »
Peter McInnes was born on 12 August 1886 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Both from Glasgow, his parents James and Ann (née Morrison) McInnes had married on 27 February 1874. For a while after their marriage the couple had lived in nearby Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire as their son John was born there in 1877. Back in Glasgow… Read More »
Cecil McLeod joined the war effort as soon as he was old enough, enlisting with the 76th Canadian Field Artillery Depot Battery in Winnipeg in March 1917, just three months after turning 18. McLeod had been born in Rat Portage Dec. 8, 1898, the son of Edward Donald McLeod, a CPR engineer, and Elizabeth Eakins…. Read More »
Four months after their success at Vimy Ridge the Canadian Corps fought at the Battle of Hill 70, suffering almost 6,000 casualties in the ten day operation. One of the fallen was Private Alexander McLeod. Alexander was the son of Duncan McLeod and Mary Munro of Keewatin, Ontario. Duncan was born in Stornoway on the… Read More »
Private Robert Elsworth McKee was married and the father of a baby daughter when he enlisted in January 1917. He served in England and France with the Canadian Forestry Corps and returned to Canada in November 1918 after suffering an injury. Elsworth was the youngest son of John McKee, a farmer, and Margaret (Maggie) Thompson…. Read More »
