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Blakie, John Walter

According to his attestation papers, John Walter Blakie was born on 3 October 1887 in the Providence Bay area on Manitoulin Island, Ontario where his family farmed. His parents James Blakie and Ruth Emma George were both born in Ontario, marrying on 17 February 1876 in Uxbridge where their families farmed. James and Ruth’s first… Read More »

Wilson, John Samuel (1892-1954)

Their third born child, John Samuel Wilson was born on 6 March 1892, birth registered in the Township of Pickering. His father Thomas Fawcett Wilson had been born in Green River, Pickering  while his mother Annie Elizabeth Spence was from nearby Cedar Grove. The couple married on 2 June 1886 in Stouffville, County of York, with… Read More »

Millward, Joseph

The son of George Millward and Margaret Donald, Joseph Millward was born on 28 August 1899 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario, date of birth confirmed by his Ontario birth record. His father George, a cook, was from England while his mother’s Métis roots were in the Red River Settlement in Manitoba. Margaret had… Read More »

Gibben, Paul Burman

Paul Burman Gibben was born on 22 July 1898 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father William Gibben was from Barnaby Moor while his mother Sarah Eleanor Burman was from Middlesborough, both in Yorkshire, England. The couple married during the last quarter of 1890 in the registration district of Middlesborough. At the time of the 1891 England… Read More »

Hill, John Harrison

John Harrison Hill was one many British Isle immigrants who came to Canada in the early 1900s to take advantage of land grants for would be farmers in Saskatchewan. For a $10 payment settlers were given provisional title to 160 acres of farmland, and if they could farm the land for five years and erect… Read More »

Bosman, Russell

Private Russell Bosman enlisted in January 1915 and served in France as a lorry driver with a supply column. He returned home to Canada in 1917 after his father died and he was discharged from service on compassionate grounds. Russell was the oldest son of John and Laura Bosman of Brandon, Manitoba. John grew up… Read More »

Linklater, Charles

Charles Linklater was born on 26 August 1890 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Jacob Linklater had been born in the Northwest Territories and had entered service with the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1868. Jacob served in the Norway House District as runner, midman, and fisherman until 1878 and then renewed his… Read More »

Woods, John Stanley

John Stanley Woods was born on 3  January 1889 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Arthur Woods, son of Irish immigrant Russel Woods and Quebec born Eliza Huston, grew up on a farm in the Kildare/Joliette, Quebec region. His mother Harriet Ross, daughter of William and Margaret (née Caswell) Ross was from… Read More »

Labonte, Arthur James

Reverend Father Arthur James Labonte was born on 19 October 1883 in Francestown, New Hampshire. His father, Emery Labonte, was born in St. Dominque, Quebec and moved to New Hampshire as a teenager. He found work in stone quarries in the Francestown area. Arthur’s mother, Marie Hibbert (Hebert), was born in Burlington, Vermont but her… Read More »

Tetroe, Joseph James

Birth date and location:    Joseph James Tetroe was born in Tyndall, Manitoba, on July 18, 1886.  His parents were Joseph  (born about 1845, U.S.A.) and Josephine Tetroe (born in the U.S.A. December 28, 1859). Early life:    Throughout the  1901, 1906 and 1911  Canadian Census  Lists, Joseph, Josephine and their children were living  in… Read More »