Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Margach, William

Private William Margach enlisted with a field ambulance unit in January 1917 in Edmonton, Alberta. He served overseas for two years and returned to Canada in March 1919. William was the son of William Innes Margach and Margaret Dunbar Hay of Edmonton, Alberta. His parents were both born in southern Ontario and they were married… Read More »

Angood, Ernest Frederick

Ernest, his mother Harriet (seated) and new wife Florence, likely taken in 1918 Ernest Frederick Angood, son of Frederick Angood (1844) and Harriet Boyden (1847), was born in Chatteris, Cambridge, England on 15th October 1889. He had several siblings, including George (1869-1951), Louisa (1877-1963) who immigrated to Australia, sister Mabel (1886, married last name Rae)… Read More »

Shouldice, Joseph

Joseph Erwin Shouldice was born on 28  April 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Joseph Shouldice was from the Gatineau River/Wakefield area of Quebec and had come west to Winnipeg in 1877 to work on CPR construction. His mother Christina Sutherland was from West River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. The couple… Read More »

Chorney, Harry

According to his obituary Harry Chorney was a veteran of the First World War. His obituary tells us he was born on 11 April 1898 in Borowe, Ukraine but his 1930 marriage record gives his place of birth as Poland. There is a village called Borowe in Poland and when the First World War started… Read More »

Lane, Ernest

Private Ernest Lane was born on 31 January 1893 in Walworth, Southwark, London, England. As a child he came into the care of Fegan’s Homes and at age 14 he was sent to Canada as a Home Child. He arrived in Quebec on 24 May 1907 on the Empress of Britain. At that time many… Read More »

Birbeck, Thomas Edson

Thomas Edson Birbeck was born on 15 November 1896 in Port Stanley, Ontario. According to William Shurtleff’s Shurtleff and Lawton Families: Genealogy and History and other sources, Thomas’ father Thomas Edson Birbeck was born in 1865 in Leeds, Yorkshire in England. At a young age he ran away from home and went to sea, later… Read More »

Mappin, Walter

Although he gave his date of birth on his WW1 attestation papers as 15 July 1874 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, Walter Mappin was likely born in 1863, birth registered in the 3rd quarter in Ecclesall Bierslow, a township within Sheffield. Over the years various documents show that Walter went by the forename of Walter, William,… Read More »

Connolly, Benjamin

Private Benjamin Connolly joined the 251st ‘Goodfellows’ Battalion in February 1917 and went overseas later that year. He served for a year and a half in England, France, Belgium and Germany, returning to Canada in May 1919. Benjamin was born in Camden, Colchester County, Nova Scotia, the youngest son in a family of twelve children…. Read More »

Logan, Ebenezer

Private Ebenezer Logan was married and the father of four children when he enlisted in 1915. He served in Canada for nine months and was discharged for medical reasons. Ebenezer was born on 28 July 1882 in Montreal, Quebec. His parents were James Logan and Catherine (Kate) Cameron. James and Kate were married in Montreal… Read More »