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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Joseph Stephen Barker was born on 24 July 1890 in Faraday, Hastings, Ontario, date and place confirmed by his Ontario birth record. His father Frederick (Fred) Joseph Barker was from Shoreditch, London, England and had immigrated to Canada in 1873 with his parents who settled in the Faraday/Dungannon area. His mother Mary Lydia Allcock was… Read More »
Harry Stuart MacKenzie was one of three sons and two daughters of William and Lizzie Mackenzie, of Kenora, Ontario. His parents were born in Scotland and emigrated separately to Canada in the 1880s, meeting and marrying in Brandon, Manitoba in 1889 where William worked as a dry goods store clerk. Harry, born in 1893, was… Read More »
John Kane Dempster was one of four brothers, the sons of John and Catherine (Kane) Dempster, to volunteer for service during the war. John and Catherine brought their family to Canada in 1907 from Glasgow, Scotland where John was a baker. He’d found employment for himself and his older sons at the Lake of the… Read More »
Livingston Gilbert (Bert) Gunne was born on 11 January 1890 in Glenboro, RM of South Cypress, Manitoba. Although his parents William James and Alzina Evelyn (née Livingston) Gunne were from Ontario, the couple had married 29 August 1888 in the RM of South Cypress. William was a physician. A second child, daughter Dorothea Vashti was… Read More »
Private William Thomas Brown enlisted underage when he was 16 years old and he served for more than four years in Canada, England, France, Belgium and Germany. He was wounded twice but he survived the war and returned home in May 1919. William was the oldest son of Joseph Brown and Mary Robinson of Kenora,… Read More »
Private Morton Frank Guest enlisted twice and served in Canada, England, France and Belgium. He spent thirteen months overseas and returned to Canada in March 1919. Morton was born on 10 June 1895 in Palentine, Montgomery County, New York, the oldest son of Morley Guest and Katie Saltsman. Morley and Katie were married in 1892… Read More »
John Daniel Marsh was born on 10 November 1873 in the village of Gwehelog, subdistrict of Usk, district of Pontypool, in Monmouthshire, Wales. He was likely named after his older brother John Daniel who had died earlier that year. His father Joseph Marsh was from Harewood, Herefordshire in England while his mother Sarah Lewis was… Read More »
Aloysius Francis Beach was born in Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota on 13 October 1897. His parents were Leander Beach and Catherine Agnes Halligan. Leander was born in Wisconsin and Catherine in Minnesota. They were married in Flandreau in January 1897 and Aloysius was their first child. He was followed by Wilfred Louis (1899), Cecilia… Read More »
