These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Reginald Donald MacDonell enlisted with the 94th Battalion on 5 November 1915 in Kenora, Ontario, rank of Private. His date and place of birth was given as 3 November 1871 in Cornwall, Ontario, and his next of kin as Mrs. John MacDonell in Toronto. Single, at the time of his enlistment Reginald was working as… Read More »
Reverend Charles William McKim was born on 12 August 1867 in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Robert McKim and Isabella Meredith. Robert and Isabella had at least five children: Robert, Isabella, Henrietta, Charles and Joseph. Charles attended Wycliffe College in Toronto and King’s College in Windsor, Nova Scotia, graduating with an M.A. He entered the… Read More »
Per Johan Olsson was born on 11 January 1893 in Malung, Dalarna, Sweden. Once in Canada his name was anglicized to John Peter (Jack) Olson. Jack’s parents were Olla Johan Olsson and Karin Persdotter who had married on 30 December 1884 in Malung. He had three older brothers, Emil (1885), Karl (1887) and Lars (Louis)… Read More »
Private Ernest Joseph Haight was born on 25 September 1900 in Cedar Lake, Manitoba. His parents, Edward Benjamin Haight and Elizabeth Annie Garvie, were both born in Ontario. They were married in 1885 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and they had at least six children: Edward Laurence, Gordon Joyner, Elizabeth Olive, Edith Annie, Ernest Joseph and Harold… Read More »
Edwin Claridge Hayward was born on 25 September 1893 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. His parents were Alfred Hayward and Emma Jane Dee. Siblings included: Alfred William (b. 1883), George Harold (b. 1884), Laurence Victor (b. 1888), Violet Eliza (b. 1890), Margaret Ellen (b. 1891), Ernest Dee (b. 1893), and Noel Stephen (b. 1896). Edwin’s father,… Read More »
Ted was the youngest of the 6 children of James Henry Cox and Emma Jane Cox (formerly Smith). His siblings were Willie James (1872-1917), Alice Louise (1874-1962), Frederick Henry (1876-1959), James Arthur (1878-1936), and Florence Ada (1881-1929). On the census taken in England during 1911 he was shown as a 24 year old fireman with… Read More »
Charles Floyd Byington was born on 10 May 1896 in Portland, Leeds, Ontario. His parents were Charlotte Byington and George Warren but he was raised by his grandparents Napoleon and Ruth (Dunn) Byington as their son. Napoleon and Ruth’s children, thought as siblings to Floyd, were David (1872), George (1875-1942), Milton (1877), Charlotte (1880-1973), Johanna… Read More »
According to his obituary, Edouard Perreault (dit Morin) was born on 11 June 1867 in Saint Anne des Chenes, Manitoba (with the citation of SB-Rozyk p 186 B-52, Gail Morin gives a birth date of 11 June 1870). His grandfather, Jean Baptiste Perreault (dit Morin), was born in Quebec where he married Marie Ducharme, also… Read More »
Ivan Lucas Kendall was born on 9 May 1890 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), in northwestern Ontario. His father William Glanfield Kendall was from Rettendon, Essex, England. At age twenty-three William had immigrated to Canada, first living in Stratford, Ontario where he worked for the Grand Trunk Railway before moving to Winnipeg in 1882… Read More »
Archie E Austin was born on 2 February 1888 in the township of Townsend, Norfolk, Ontario. His father William Edwin Austin, a blacksmith, was from Townsend while his mother Della Force was from Windham, Ontario. The couple married in 1887 in Waterford in Norfolk. Archie had a younger brother, Charles Arthur, born in 1889. Archie… Read More »