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

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Chaloner, Arthur Reginald

Arthur Chaloner was born on October 8 1893 in Lauder, a town located on the CP Railroad southwest of Brandon Manitoba. His parents John Henry Chaloner and Mary Gertrude (Heatley) Chaloner were one of the first resident families to arrive there. They landed in Lauder in 1891 with three children: Louise, who was born in… Read More »

Garrow, Frank Jacob

Frank Jacob Garrow was born September 20, 1889 in Colehill, Ontario. He was the 5th child of 8 born to Joseph Garrow and Elizabeth McKinnon.   Frank’s siblings were William, Joseph, Steven, Annie, Lucy, Sarah and Agnes. The family was all born in Ontario.   Shortly after the 1901 census Joseph and Elizabeth moved their… Read More »

Storey, Hayston

Hayston Storey was born on 20 March 1892 in Oulton, Cumberland, England. He was the son of Esther Storey, also born in Oulton, and grandson of James and Mary (née Hayston) Storey. Over the years grandfather James worked as a cotton weaver, husbandman (free tenant farmer) and in latter years operated a market gardening business… Read More »

O’Flaherty, Laurence

Laurence O’Flaherty was born during the month of  October 1880 in Ballinhassig, Cork, Ireland, exact date unknown.  His parents were Laurence and Elizabeth (née Costellos) O’Flaherty. Known siblings were Michael Augustine, Margaret Mary (Peggy), Mary Elizabeth (Polly), John Patrick, Eliza Lydia, Theresa Mary (Tessie), Madeline, Emily Costello, and Annie Violet, Laurence being the third youngest…. Read More »

Bolduc, George Joseph

George Joseph Bolduc was born on 28 March 1897 in Norman, a small community in northwestern Ontario a couple of kilometres west of Kenora. His parents David Bolduc and Claudia Labelle, both from Quebec, had married in 1887 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora). The family first lived in nearby Keewatin and then in Norman… Read More »

Frost, Moses

Private Moses Frost was born on 30 June 1886 in North Bay, Ontario. His parents, Moses Frost Sr. and Mary Denault, were both from the Fort Coulonge area in Quebec. Moses had five older brothers and sisters: Mary (born ca1874 in Manitoba), Joseph, David Edward and Maria (Marian) (all born in Quebec), and Samuel (born… Read More »

Bjornson, Sigmundur

According to his attestation papers Sigmundur Bjornson was born on 5 June 1889 in Ladfjord, Iceland. (His marriage record listed Hnitborg, Gokururhlid, Iceland as his place of birth while a Keewatin history book gave his date of birth as 1 June 1888.) His parents Bjorn Hannesson and Steinunn Eyriksdottir married in Kirkjubaer I Hroarstunga, Nordur-Mulasysla… Read More »

Kelley, William Henry

Although he gave his birth year as 1895 on his attestation papers, William Henry Kelley was born on 22 October 1894 in Keewatin, Ontario. His father David Kelley and his mother Catherine Jane Boswell were both from Liverpool, England and had immigrated to Canada in 1887. Along with his parents George and Lucy Kelley and… Read More »

Broome, Archibald Theodoric

Pilot Cadet Archibald Theodoric Broome joined the Royal Flying Corps in March 1918 and served in Canada for nine months. After the war he moved to Cuba where he lived for more than thirty years. Archibald was born in Foresters Falls, Ross Township, Renfrew County, Ontario. He was the oldest son of Thomas Broome and… Read More »

North, Frederick James

Frederick James (Fred) North was born on 27 September 1886 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. His father Samuel James North, a drug chemist, was from Grimsby while his mother Louisa Nutt was from Worcester. The couple married on 5 December 1885 in St Giles, Matlock in Derbyshire. They were to make Grimsby their home, with Frederick… Read More »