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Johnson, Joseph Harvey (Ladd)

Joseph Harvey (Ladd) Johnson was born on 29 May 1895 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His father Joseph Johnson, son of Irish immigrant James Johnson and his 1st generation Irish Canadian wife Ann Sanderson, grew up on a farm in the Omemee area just south of the Kawartha Lakes in southern… Read More »

Robertson, Forbes Proctor

Private Forbes Proctor Robertson enlisted with the third overseas contingent and served for three years, most of that time with the Canadian Army Service Corps. He was discharged for medical reasons in April 1918. Forbes was born on 24 September 1889 in Aberdeen, Scotland. His parents were John Robertson, a master tailor, and Jessie Martin…. Read More »

Primrose, Hiram

According to his attestation papers Hiram Primrose was born on 15 September 1885 in Deseronto, Ontario*. His father George Henry Alexander Primrose was from London, England while his mother Emily Jane Haynes was from Kaladar, Ontario. The couple married in 1876 in the township of Barrie where George had been farming. Children born to the… Read More »

Linn, Hugh George

Hugh George Linn was born on 11 October 1900 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario, date confirmed by his Ontario birth record. By 1899 his father William Linn, born in the township of Smith, Peterborough in Ontario, had been living in Rat Portage and working as a drayman. On 27 November 1899,… Read More »

Loudon, William Dykes

William Dykes Loudon was born on 13 January 1896 in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire in Scotland. His father John Loudon, a cheese merchant, was from Strathaven in Lanarkshire. In 1869 he had married his first wife, Grace Peat and together in Strathaven gave birth to children Mary Goole (1869-1945), Gavin (1871-1878), Maggie Dykes (1873), Grace Peat (1875-1903),… Read More »

Beach, Aloysius Francis

Aloysius Francis Beach was born in Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota on 13 October 1897. His parents were Leander Beach and Catherine Agnes Halligan. Leander was born in Wisconsin and Catherine in Minnesota. They were married in Flandreau in January 1897 and Aloysius was their first child. He was followed by Wilfred Louis (1899), Cecilia… Read More »

Twaduklum, Philip

Records are sketchy for Philip Twaduklum but here is what we know: – he was born in Bosrab, Russia on 12 December 1886, son of Nikit Twaduklum (Attestation) – he came to Canada in 1908 (1921 Census) – not found in 1911 Canadian Census Philip enlisted with the 227th ‘Men of the North’ Battalion in… Read More »

Hulmes, Frank

  The Hulmes family was from Manchester, Lancashire in England where parents Thomas and Martha (Pennington) had married on 24 March 1883. Thomas was listed as a coal wharfinger (takes custody of and is responsible for goods delivered to the wharf) in the 1891 census and as a coal dealer in later censuses. Children born… Read More »

Reid, Charles

Charles Reid was born on 22 September 1893 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), in northwestern Ontario. His parents Charles Francis Reid and Mary Elizabeth Savage were both born in New Brunswick, marrying on 1 November 1887 in Newcastle. Son Francis William (Frank) was born in 1888 in New Brunswick before the family moved to… Read More »