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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Private Robert Edmund Bunting was the youngest son of Robert James Bunting and Alice Agar Fitzgerald. James was born in New Brunswick and Alice in Ontario. They both moved to northwestern Ontario with their families around 1880. They were married in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in 1882 and they had a daughter Violetta in… Read More »
John Robert Bullivant was born on 14 December 1882 in Artemesia, Grey County, Ontario. His father John Bullivant was from Artemesia while his mother Mary Ann Scott was from Owen Sound. The couple married in Artemesia in 1877. Over the years John Sr worked as a farmer, sawyer, and labourer. From various censuses children born… Read More »
John Patrick Collins was born on 15 March 1894 in Marylebone, London, England. He was the first child of John and Susan Jane (née Rackley) Collins, both from Marylebone. Other children born to the family in England were Mary (1899), Richard (1901), Margaret (Maggie)(1904), and William (1906). The family was found on the passenger list… Read More »
Private John James Millar enlisted in July 1915, at age 20. He served with the Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery and died of wounds in March 1918, during the German Spring Offensive. John was the son of James Millar and Katherine Janet Robertson of Winnipeg, Manitoba. James, a shoemaker, was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland and… Read More »
Sergeant Sylvester Joseph O’Neill was born on either 6 or 7 May 1889 in Rat Portage, Ontario. He was baptized on 12 May at the Notre Dame du Portage Roman Catholic Church in Rat Portage. The baptism register records his birth as 6 May but other records have it as 7 May. His parents, John… Read More »
Private Ainsley Thomas Marshman enlisted in New Brunswick in March 1916 and served in Canada for six months. He was discharged for medical reasons in September 1916. Ainsley was the youngest son of James Marshman and Julia Godfrey Bowser of Dorchester, Westmorland County, New Brunswick. He was born in Dorchester on 28 October 1887 and… Read More »
Horace Albert Olsen was born on 12 October 1897 in the Ullswater area in Muskoka, Ontario. His father Tobias Olsen, the son of Norwegian immigrants, was born in 1862 in Quebec while his mother Mary Ann McCaskill, the daughter of a Scottish immigrant and his Upper Canadian born wife, was born in 1861 in Glengarry,… Read More »
Benjamin Bassett was born on 10 September 1885 in the city of Waterford in Ireland. His father George Walter Bassett, a wine merchant, was from Waterford, while his mother Sarah Jane Caldbeck was from County Wexford. The couple had married in Waterford in 1877. Children born to the family were George Thomas (1878), Frederick Richard… Read More »
Private Ralph Youngman enlisted in January 1917 and served with the 52nd Battalion in France and Belgium. He was wounded at the Battle of Amiens and he suffered from trench fever and influenza, but he survived the war and returned to Canada in May 1919. Ralph was born on 7 November 1897 in Ava, Kinkaid… Read More »
John Joseph Milliard was born on 14 July 1897 in Norman, Ontario. His parents, Joseph Jean and Marie (née Lebel) Milliard, were both originally from the Kamouraska area in Quebec. The couple had married 2 July 1889 in Rat Portage (later named Kenora), Ontario. Eventually moving to nearby Keewatin, the family grew. Children included Rose… Read More »
