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

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Morrow, Robert Clark

Robert Clark Morrow was born on 28 June 1894 in his family home  at 93 Blackburn Street, Govan, Glasgow. His parents Daniel and Mary (née Clark) Morrow had married on 31 December 1891 in Govan. Daniel’s occupation was given as sailmaker and Mary’s as domestic servant. For the 1901 Scotland census the Morrow family was… Read More »

Dowsett, Charles Phillip

Private Charles Phillip Barton Dowsett enlisted in September 1915 and served for one year in Canada and three years overseas. He returned home in December 1919 with a war bride. Charles was the only son of Russell Eli Dowsett and Annie Laura Heath of Kenora, Ontario. Russell and Annie were both born in Leeds County,… Read More »

Sharpin, Frederick Howard

Frederick Howard Sharpin was born on 10 March 1896 near Rathwell, Manitoba where his family farmed. His father was James Henry Sharpin and his mother was Elizabeth Sharpin, first cousins from Howick, Huron in Ontario where their families farmed. The couple married on 15 March 1890 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Elizabeth had given birth… Read More »

Ovens, Thomas Earl

Private Thomas Earl Ovens was the son of Isaac Ovens and Katherine (Kate) Winner of East Selkirk, Manitoba. Isaac was born in Ontario to Irish parents and Kate was American and of German ancestry. Their three oldest children were born in Colorado: Hilyard Verl (1891), Thomas Earl and Ruby Lenore. Thomas was born on 1… Read More »

Giguere, Alexandre

Birth, Parents and Siblings: According to his Attestation papers, Alexandre Giguere was born December 1, 1888, in the province of Quebec. One of his other military records states his birth was 1884;however, the 1891 Quebec census records him as age 8, thus, born about 1883. A birth registration has been located that confirms an 1883… Read More »

LaRocque, Joseph Adolphus

Joseph Adolphus LaRocque was born on 17 November 1887 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His parents Augustin LaRocque and Henriette Boivin had married on 14 April 1873 in Ottawa, Ontario. Augustin had previously married Marie Clare Rochon in St Eustache, Quebec in 1866 but sadly she died in 1872 in Ottawa, the couple childless. Augustin and Henriette… Read More »

Parkes, Samuel

Samuel Parkes was born on 18 February 1891 in Birmingham, England. His parents Isaac Parkes and Betsy Oseland were both from Birmingham, their marriage registered during the 3rd quarter of 1889 in King’s Norton, an area in Birmingham. The 1891 England census listed the family in King’s Norton and in 1901 in Aston, another area… Read More »

Gault, Robert

Robert was the oldest son of John and Eliza Gault of Keewatin, Ontario. He was born in Hastings County, Ontario in June 1865 or 1866. His father had emigrated from Ireland as a child and his mother was born in Ontario. Robert had at least one brother and five sisters: William, Matilda, Eliza, Kate, Alice… Read More »

Neilson, Clive Proudfoot

Corporal Clive Proudfoot Neilson was the only son of James Little Neilson and Rebecca (Rhea) Forgan of Winnipeg, Manitoba. James was born in Waterloo County, Ontario to Scottish immigrant parents. Rhea was most likely born in Russia and came to Canada around 1891, when she was about 13 years old. By 1900 James and Rhea… Read More »

Pritchard, Reginald Edgar (Ray)

Reginald Edgar (Ray) Pritchard was born on 20 June 1900 in Norman, Ontario, a small community a couple of kilometres west of Kenora in northwestern Ontario. His father Frederick Pritchard was from Fort William, Ontario while his mother Jane Beatrice Linklater was born in Moose Factory, Ontario where her father worked for the Hudson’s Bay… Read More »