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

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Wilcox, Sydney Charles

Sydney Charles Wilcox was born on 26 July 1883 in Windsor, Hants, Nova Scotia. His father Charles Smith Wilcox was from Windsor while his mother Emma Gertrude Thom was from Quebec City where the couple married in 1880. Returning to Windsor, Charles and his brother George were both hardware merchants. Children born to the family… Read More »

Lozinski, Joseph

Joseph Lozinski was born on 4 October 1899 in Bosyry, Ukraine. He was the son of Joannis (Jan) Lozinski and Anna Gurin (Hurin). According to a later article about his retirement, he served in the Polish Army from 1917 to 1925. On 24 October 1920, in the Ukraine, he married Tetana. In 1927 Joseph immigrated… Read More »

Boyer, John

The Kenora Miner and News published a note on 3 March 1918 that John Boyer, brother of William Boyer of Kenora, who had enlisted with the 107th Pioneer Battalion was among the recent returned men. His identity could not be confirmed.  

Kyle, Louis Alexander

Acting Corporal Louis Alexander Kyle was one of three brothers who served during the First World War. He went overseas in October 1916 and returned to Canada in June 1919. Louis (sometimes known as Lewis) was born on 23 October 1888 in Rat Portage, Ontario, the second of five sons. His father, Morison Kyle, was… Read More »

Beaudro, Rocque Francis

Captain Rocque Francis Beaudro was married and the father of three young boys when he enlisted in May 1916. He served in France with the Canadian Railway Troops and returned to Canada in March 1919. Rocque was the son of Joseph Henry Beaudro (Beaudrault) and Sarah Leger of Kenora, Ontario. He was born on 29… Read More »

Travis, Albert Edgar

Albert Edgar Travis was born on 16 May 1894 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His father Herbert Travis, a music teacher/professor, was from England while his mother Edith Florine Emily Wood was from Arkona in southwestern Ontario, having moved to Manitoba with her parents and siblings as a child. The couple… Read More »

Dusang, Hilliard Rusteed

Private Hilliard Rusteed Dusang was the first Kenora lad to join the 94th Battalion, signing up at age 18. He arrived in France in September 1916 and he was killed at the Battle of Vimy Ridge seven months later. Hilliard was the son of Albert James Dusang and Caroline Laura Gill. Albert and Caroline were… Read More »

Hinds, Frederick Ellsworth

Private Frederick Ellsworth Hinds signed up with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in December 1915, at age 21, and served overseas for more than three years. Ellsworth was the son of Frederick Hinds and Isabel Mathieson of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Frederick was born in Brussels, Ontario and Isabel in Toronto. They were married in 1891 in… Read More »

Swan, Douglas Alan

Douglas Alan Swan was born on 2 April 1898 in Keewatin, Ontario, a small town near present day Kenora in northwestern Ontario. His father Henry Ross Swan, the son of Allan Swan and Cecilia Brymner, was born in 1865 in Greenock, Renfrewshire in Scotland. He had immigrated to Canada along with two of his brothers… Read More »

Villeneuve, Augustin

Augustin was born on June 28, 1872 in Bouchette Quebec to Maxime Villeneuve and Marie Cyr. He was one of many children in this family. In 1881, Augustin is shown age 9 in Bouchette with his parents and 8 brothers and sisters plus another sister, her husband and child. In the 1880s, several mills were… Read More »