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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Duncan Begg was born on 19 July 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. He was the son of James and Jemina (née Muggaberg) Begg. Originally from Selkirk/St Andrews, Manitoba, the couple had married 27 August 1891 in Rat Portage. James had moved to the area in 1888, employed by the Hudson’s Bay… Read More »
Edgar James Strain was born on 09 August 1897 in Gravenhurst, Ontario. His parents were Robert William Strain (1868-1940) and Minnie Maria Smith (1875-1908). The extended family (grandfather, grandmother, aunts, uncles) having resided in the Gravenhurst area for two or three decades, moved to Rat Portage in 1899. They spent the first winter in Slabtown… Read More »
James McManaman was born on 28 September 1884 in the township of Melancthon, Ontario. His parents Thomas McManaman and Julia Connors were both born in Ireland, immigrating to Canada with their parents to settle with a number of Irish families in the Melancthon area to farm. Thomas and Julia married on 30 January 1872 in… Read More »
Captain Reverend Allan McDougall McColl was born in Govan, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 28 December 1873. His parents, John McColl and Isabella McDougall, were both from Argyllshire, Scotland and Allan was one of at least nine children. His father was a ship carpenter/shipwright. At the time of the 1901 census Allan was living in Govan,… Read More »
Frederick Herbert Jordan was born on 24 December 1896 in Ottawa, Ontario. His parents were Josiah Jordan and Kathleen Crone. The family is found on the 1901 Canadian Census living in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario and Josiah was working as a labourer. Children in the household were Mabel (b. 1893), Millie (b. 1895), Frederick and… Read More »
Philip Creed was born on 9 May 1890 in Hastings, Sussex, England. His parents were Alfred and Rosa Hannah (maiden name also Creed) who had married in 1889 in Hastings. Alfred was a bootmaker by trade while Rosa was an elementary school teacher. Philip was their first born child, followed by Doris Helen in 1898… Read More »
Born on January 10, 1885 in Ardelach, Nairn in Scotland, Thomas Grant, the son of Charles Grant and Annie Roberts, immigrated from Scotland in 1907 to Kenora, Ontario, Canada. He met Catherine (Kate) Duncan and they were married by license in the town of Kenora on April 11, 1911. Thomas was a flour packer at… Read More »
Sergeant George Ross Thompson, known to his friends and family as Smokey, was an original member of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, enlisting with them in August 1914 when they were first organized. After surviving almost four years of war Sergeant Thompson was killed in action on 28 September 1918, 44 days before the Armistice…. Read More »
During the First World War more than 11,000 employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company enlisted for service and 1,116 of them gave their lives. Private Robert Bruce Lusk was working as a locomotive fireman for the CPR in Kenora, Ontario when he signed up in December 1914. He arrived in Belgium in March 1916… Read More »
William Mitchell was born 08 August 1885 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. His parents were George Mitchell and Margaret Begg. He had four sisters – Jessie Catherine (b. 1873, m. John Duncan McKenzie), Florence (b. 1877, m. Wilkie James Brown), Minota (b. 1883, m. Edwin Stone) and Marian (b. 1887, m. George Carmichael Cooke). William… Read More »
