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

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Black, Peter

Peter Black was born on 24 June 1878 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland as confirmed by his birth registration. His father James Black, saddler, was from Coulter in Lanarkshire as was his mother Annie Duncan. The couple had married in Dunbartonshire. Peter was their first born child, followed by Mary Jane (1880), James (1985), Adam (1887),… Read More »

McNicol, Robert

Robert McNicol was born on 28 May 1898 in the district of Kinning Park in Glasgow, Scotland, date confirmed by his Scotland birth registration record. His father William McNicol, a marine engineer, was from Alloa in Clackmannshire while his mother Mary McLeod Martin was from Ayr in Ayrshire. The couple married in Kinning Park on… Read More »

Lapworth, F

As reported in the 2 April 1919 edition of the Kenora Miner and News, the towns of Kenora and Keewatin held a large reception for returning veterans at the Tourist Hotel. On the list of veterans was F Lapworth, his identity not confirmed. However it was probably returning veteran George Thomas Lapworth that attended the… Read More »

Cherry, John Joseph Roland

John Joseph Cherry was born on 19 August 1890 in Keewatin, Ontario. His parents were Thomas Joseph Cherry and Caroline Hawkin. Siblings included Cecil, Agnes, Marion and Norah. John’s father was born in Ireland and immigrated to Canada 1871. He was a Reeve for Keewatin in 1907 and 1908 becoming Keewatin’s first Mayor in 1909… Read More »

Brest, Samuel

Samuel Brest was likely born in 1899 in Russia. His father was Eli (aka Alexander) Brest and he had at least two sisters, the family immigrating to Canada around 1906, settling in Kenora, Ontario where Eli worked as a second hand dealer. With occupation given as barber and his father Alexander (aka Eli) in Kenora… Read More »

Brown, John T

The son of Frances Emily Browne, John Brown was born on 22 June 1885 in Fulham, (London), Middlesex, England. Frances, born in Dublin, Ireland, was the daughter of Charles Henry and Jane Matilda (née Smith) Browne who had married in 1856 in Islington, London. The 1891 England census for Fulham found John living with his… Read More »

McPherson, George

Captain George McPherson enlisted in November 1915 at age 41 and served for three years in Canada, England, France and Belgium. He was invalided home due to illness in October 1918. George was born on 25 April 1874 in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of John McPherson and his first wife Margaret Finn. John was from… Read More »

Cooke, Joseph

Joseph Cooke was born on 26 March 1887 in Sandwith, Cumberland, England. His father Samuel Cooke, a coal miner, and mother Sarah Bell married on 28 November 1874 in the parish of St Bees, Cumberland. It appears that Sarah already had a son at the time of the marriage, John Bell who was born in… Read More »

Maluish, Harry Walter

Heinrick Maluish was born in Rat Portage (Kenora) on 06 October 1897. His parents came from two different worlds. Ernest Duncan Maluish arrived from England and settled in Rat Portage in 1880. His mother Katharina Frankenberger arrived from Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany in 1887. The two met at a local boarding house and married in the Anglican… Read More »

Beaudro, Silas Alexander

Gunner Silas Alexander Beaudro of Kenora, Ontario was called up in February 1918. He served in Canada for ten months with the Canadian Field Artillery. Silas was the youngest son of Joseph Henry Beaudro (Beaudrault) and Sarah Leger. Joseph was born in Sorel, Quebec and moved to Minnesota with his family as a child. His… Read More »