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

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Neving, Henry James

Private Henry James Neving enlisted in April 1917 at age 44. He served in England for nineteen months with the Canadian Forestry Corps and he was invalided back to Canada due to illness. Henry was born on 20 June 1872 in Owen Sound, Ontario. His parents, Thomas Neving, a shoemaker, and Susan Evans, were both… Read More »

Scott, Thomas Steele

Birth and early life:    The obituary of Thomas Steele Scott states he was born in Wishart, England and died in his 59th year; however, records indicate he was born April 19, 1873, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, son of Thomas Scott and Janet A. Steele. By the time the 1881 census was taken, the family was… Read More »

Collier, Edward Carlos

According to his service record, Edward Carlos Collier was born on 10 May 1894 in Geneva, Switzerland. Living in Kenora, Ontario and working as a bank clerk, he signed his attestation papers in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 7 April 1916 with the 203rd Battalion. He gave his uncle Albert Brondell in Plum Coulee, Manitoba as next… Read More »

MacKenzie, Stormont Green

Stormont (Monte) Green MacKenzie was one of three sons and two daughters of William and Lizzie MacKenzie of Kenora, Ontario. His parents were born in Scotland and immigrated separately to Canada in the 1880s, meeting and marrying in Brandon, Manitoba in 1889 where William worked as a dry goods store clerk. Monte, born in 1891,… Read More »

Sigurdson, Oliver Emile (Oley)

Oliver Emile (Oley) Sigurdson was born on 29 October 1894 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His parents Teibur (Tait) Sigurdson and Gudrun (Rooney) Thorsteindottir were both from Iceland, immigration year given as 1888 in various censuses. The couple first lived in Sayreville, New Jersey in the United States where they gave birth to daughter Johanna that year…. Read More »

Evans, Charles Gilbert

Charles Gilbert (Bert) Evans was the youngest son of John James Evans (1835-1915) and Margaret Drysdale (1841-1914). Siblings included Richard Gibson (1867-1935), Thomas Ephriam (1868-1896), Robert James (1870-1951), Samuel Howard (b. 1875), Henry Angus (1876-1948), Horatio Gates (1877-1904) and William Stanley (1882-1960). According to his later attestation, he was born on 28 May 1887 in… Read More »

Morton, Robert Paterson

Robert Paterson Morton was born on 1 May 1891 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father William was from Lesmahagow while his mother Helen (née Paterson) was from Tollcross, both in Lanarkshire. The couple had married in 1872 in Cadder. An engine fitter by trade, William and Helen  moved to nearby Glasgow soon after their marriage… Read More »

Dalmer, Herbert Alexander

Herbert Alexander Dalmer was born on 16 January 1899 in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Lancashire, England. His parents Ernest Alexander Dalmer, a gas fitter, and Emma Hester Shaw were both from Liverpool, marrying on 4 September 1892 in Toxeth, Liverpool. Children born to the couple in West Derby were Gladys Eugene (1894), Florence… Read More »

Holt, Harry

Lance Corporal Harry Holt joined the British army in 1912 and served for eight years, two of them spent as a German prisoner of war. After his discharge in 1920 he immigrated to Canada. Harry was the son of Walter Holt and Eliza Riley of Manchester, Lancashire, England. Walter and Eliza were married in 1890… Read More »

Lovatt, Arthur Russell

Arthur Russell (Happy) Lovatt was born on 18 October 1899 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario, date confirmed by his delayed Ontario birth registration. His father Frederick Charles Lovatt, a carpenter, was from England and had immigrated to Canada with his family as a young child, settling in the Meaford, Ontario area. His mother… Read More »