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

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Hamilton, Alexander

Alexander Hamilton was born on 26 September 1893 in the parish of Cambusnethan in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Both of his parents, Alexander Hamilton and Mary Lindsay, were from the area, marrying on 24 June 1892 in Cambusnethan. At the time of the marriage Alexander Sr’s occupation was given as sawmill engine keeper. Other children born… Read More »

Rushton, Ernest

Ernest Rushton was born on 26 February 1895 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England. His father Walter and mother Letitia (née Booth) Rushton had married in Worcester in 1894. While in England Walter’s occupation on the censuses was given as ‘China Printer Earth’. There were four children in the Rushton family, Ernest (b 1895), Percy Frank  (b… Read More »

Watson, Norman Campion

Norman Campion Watson was born on 13 August 1892 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father James Watson, a bank clerk, was from Lanark while his mother Margaret Yule Campion was from Edinburgh. The couple married on 5 September 1878 in Edinburgh. Known children born to James and Margaret were Edith Jane (1879), Margaret Lindsay (1882), James… Read More »

Wiggins, John Alexander

John Alexander Wiggins was born on 4 June 1873 on a farm in the area of Markdale, Ontario, about 150 kilometres northwest of Toronto in the Glenelg district of Grey. His father Thomas Wiggins was an Irish immigrant and his mother Margaret Gillespie, born in the area, was the daughter of Irish immigrants. Thomas and… Read More »

Evans, Stanley Ernest Stroud

Stanley Ernest Stroud was born on 29 May 1897 in the Peckham area of London, England. In later life he went by the name of Stanley Ernest Stroud Evans. His mother Mary Elizabeth Stroud was born in 1864 in Margate in Kent, the daughter of William Stroud, a butcher journeyman, and Elizabeth Feakins. At the… Read More »

Currie, Robert

The final period of the war is known now as the Hundred Days Offensive. The Canadians were heavily involved in the battles and they suffered 20% of their total battle casualties in those last three months of the war. One of the fallen was Corporal Robert Currie, who was killed in action in France in… Read More »

Wilson, Victor Stilwell

Their first born child, Victor Stilwell (also spelled Stillwell, Stewell) Wilson was born on 17 March 1888, birth registered in the Township of Pickering. His father Thomas Fawcett Wilson had been born in Green River, Pickering  while his mother Annie Elizabeth Spence was from nearby Cedar Grove. The couple married on 2 June 1886 in… Read More »

Young, James

Private James Young enlisted with the 141st (Bull Moose) Battalion in August 1916 and served for 18 months in Canada and England. He was invalided home in February 1918. James was the son of John Young and Ellen Thompson (or Thomas) of Lac Seul, Ontario. He was born in Lac Seul in October 1890 and… Read More »

Elliott, Thomas Breedon

Thomas Breedon Elliott was born on 20 May 1878 in Smeeton Westerly, Leicestershire, England. His father Jonas Breedon Elliott was from Leicester while his mother Caroline Burnaby was from the Pipewell-Rushton area in Northamptonshire where the couple had married in the first quarter of 1875. Thomas had an older sister, Florence (1876) and younger brother… Read More »

McKennitt, James Lloyd

Along with his twin brother Robert Russell McKennitt, James Lloyd McKennitt was born on 7 November 1895 in Holland Township, Grey, Ontario, date confirmed by their Ontario birth record. Both of his parents Robert James McKennitt, a farmer, and Eliza(beth) Jane Freeborn were from the area and had lost their first spouses to death. Robert… Read More »