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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Walter Keep was born on 19 April 1888 in Wokingham, Berkshire, England. His father Edward Keep was from Streatham, Surrey while his mother Maria Bristow was from Waltham St Lawrence in Berkshire. The couple married on 9 January 1871 in Warlingham, Surrey. Over the years Edward’s occupation was listed as groom or coachman. In the… Read More »
Alexander Arthur McIntosh was born on 23 April 1887 in Hatton on Fintray, a village on the River Don in the parish of Fintray about twenty kilometres northwest of Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His Richard McIntosh was from Echt while his mother Isabella Alexander was from Rayne, both in Aberdeenshire. The couple married on 19… Read More »
Johannes (John) Erlindson Olafson was born on 2 August 1887 in Pembina, North Dakota. His parents were Icelandic immigrants, Erlendur Olafson and Iwa Magnusson. Younger siblings included: Ingiborg (born 1889), Sigrun (born 1890), Olie Valdemar (born 1892) and Dora Margaret (born 1898). At some point, Johannes moved north and found work on… Read More »
Private Emile Lauzon enlisted in January 1916, at age 18, and served in France and Belgium with the 7th Battalion. He returned to Canada in May 1919. Emile was the son of Antoine Lauzon and Flavie Ducharme of Pinewood, Ontario. Antoine and Flavie were married on 1 January 1887 in Marieval, Saskatchewan. Their son Antoine… Read More »
Although a birth record was not found, according to his later attestation and death record William James Bacon was born on 29 January 1882 in London, England. On various England censuses his father was given as Henry John Bacon and his mother as Elizabeth James, the couple marrying on 16 September 1883 in Marylebone, London…. Read More »
Bombardier Gordon Milford Hudson was called up in April 1918 and served in Canada for a year. After the war he had a long and successful career in curling and he was inducted into both the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame. Gordon was the older of two sons… Read More »
Private Philip Thomas Cory was born in England and living in Canada when the war started. He returned to the UK in 1915 and enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Philip was the son of William Henry Cory and Lucy Ann Freeman of Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. William and Lucy were married in 1877 and… Read More »
Kenora’s David George Sinclair and his wife Eliza Ann Bock had four sons that served in WW1 – Leslie Foster John (born 1887), Levi Wilmot (born 1893), Roy Frederick (born 1895) and Benjamin Elton (born 1899). The family arrived in Rat Portage (Kenora) in 1903 and settled north of town in the rural area of… Read More »
Arthur Thomas Alterton was born 06 December 1883 in March, Cambridgeshire, England. His parents were Charles and Eliza Jane Alterton. Siblings included John (born 1877) and Alice (born 1879). In May of 1904 Arthur immigrated to Canada settling first in Manitoba. The following year he moved to Kenora, Ontario and got work on… Read More »
William Blair Starratt was born on 25 May 1896 in Hopewell Hill, Albert County, New Brunswick. His parents Charles Spurgeon Starratt and Sarah Alberta Wright were both from Hopewell Hill, marrying on 27 March 1884. Children born to the couple were Charles Gordon (1885), Robert Wright (1887), Albert Wright (1893), and Blair. At the time… Read More »
