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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.

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Brown, Percy Harold

Percy Harold Brown was born on 4 August 1875 in the Clapham area of London, England. His father Alfred Piercy Brown, a tobacco manufacturer, was from the Holborn area of London while his mother Emily Mortlock was from Seal in Kent. The couple’s marriage was registered during the third quarter of 1891 in St George… Read More »

Byington, Charles Floyd

Charles Floyd Byington was born on 10 May 1896 in Portland, Leeds, Ontario. His parents were Charlotte Byington and George Warren but he was raised by his grandparents Napoleon and Ruth (Dunn) Byington as their son. Napoleon and Ruth’s children, thought as siblings to Floyd, were David (1872), George (1875-1942), Milton (1877), Charlotte (1880-1973), Johanna… Read More »

Hinton, Charles Kenneth

Charles Kenneth Hinton was born on 27 October 1886 in Bronte, Ontario, a community located on the western end of Lake Ontario between Hamilton and Toronto. His father was Adam Hinton, a sailor born in the area to a father who was a mariner. His mother was Elizabeth Jane Camp, also born in Bronte. Children… Read More »

Fraser, John James

John James Fraser was born on 22 August 1877 in Dundee, New Brunswick, a small sister community of Dalhousie in the county of Restigouche in northeastern New Brunswick. His attestation papers gave his father John Fraser as next of kin but John was actually his stepfather. Born in Nova Scotia, James’ father was David Grant… Read More »

McMillan, James

James McMillan was born on 14 July 1877 in Poltimore, Quebec. Poltimore was/is a village situated in a valley between the Gatineau and Lievre Rivers north of Gatineau. James’ father Archibald McMillan had been born in  Lochiel, Glengarry County, but had moved with his family to the Poltimore area to start a logging camp. Wood… Read More »

Peever, Moses Harvey

According to his attestation paper “Mose” Peever was born on 2 April 1881 in North Bay, Ontario. However, family and medical information in his service file confirm that he was Moses Harvey Peever, born in 1889, the son of John Peever and Jane Frost. John Peever was of Irish ancestry and born in Ontario while… Read More »

Swanson, Carl Johan

Private Carl Johan Swanson was married and a father of nine when he enlisted in 1916 at age 46. He served in England and France with the Canadian Forestry Corps and returned to Canada in May 1919. Carl was the son of Sven Olsson and Kristina Jönasdotter of Torsas, Kalmar lan (Kalmar county), Sweden. Sven… Read More »

McIlwraith, Hastings Shankland

Hastings Shankland McIlwraith was born September 16, 1892 at 25 High Street, Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland to David & Agnes (Shankland) McIlwraith. (from the official birth register of the Parish of Girvan, County of Ayr, page 57). Setting sail from Glasgow Scotland on the ‘Grampian’, Hastings arrived at Quebec City, Canada   on May 6, 1913…. Read More »

Lajeunesse, Antoine Armand

Antoine ‘Armand’ Lawrence Lajeunesse born August 10, 1891 was the first of at least 6 children of Antoine Baptiste Lajeunesse and Olive Lacombe.   He was born  in Montebello, Quebec, the town where his parents married   in 1889.   By the census year of 1901 the family had moved to Rat Portage (known later… Read More »

Day, Frederick Alfred

Frederick Alfred ‘Ford’ Day was born on 09 January 1896 in Bracebridge, Muskoka, Ontario. His parents were Frederick Day and Amelia May ‘Molly’ Traviss. They had married on 26 December 1894 in Newmarket, Ontario and Ford was their first child. Other children born to this couple were Ella (b. 1897), Thomas (1898 – 1981), Clarence… Read More »