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Beckworth, Arthur Myron

Arthur Myron Beckworth, the son of Herman E. Beckworth and Alice   Dark, was born in Blenheim, Ontario.  The Ontario birth registration states Arthur was born December 30, 1892; earlier than his original attestation papers indicated.  Herman, his father had emigrated from the United States in 1884  and married his mother, Alice Dark in Ontario…. Read More »

Currie, James Campbell

James was the son of Donald Hector (1860-1956)  and Annie J. Currie (1863-1956), of Stackpool, Ontario. Until 1911, they were living in Kenora, Ontario. The  1911 census listed their name as Carrier instead of Currie. In 1891 Donald Hector  was shipping clerk in a lumber mill. In 1901, James lived with his mother and father… Read More »

Bunting, Robert Edmund

Private Robert Edmund Bunting was the youngest son of Robert James Bunting and Alice Agar Fitzgerald. James was born in New Brunswick and Alice in Ontario. They both moved to northwestern Ontario with their families around 1880. They were married in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in 1882 and they had a daughter Violetta in… Read More »

Charlebois, Emile

Private Emile Charlebois of Kenora, Ontario was called up in November 1917, at age 28. He served for seven months with the 1st Depot Battalion, Manitoba Regiment. Emile was the youngest son of Joseph Charlebois and his second wife Azilda Picard. Joseph married Azilda in October 1884 in Saint André-Avellin, Quebec, a small village north… Read More »

Cardinal, Elphege Louis

Elphege Louis Cardinal was born on 12 April 1898 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His father Louis Cardinal was from Montebello, Quebec and moved to the area around 1894. His mother Evelina Roy was from Point Gatineau, Quebec and had relocated to nearby Keewatin with her parents and siblings sometime before… Read More »

Cleland, George William

George William Cleland was born on 13 January 1901 at the Mikado Mine on Shoal Lake, Lake of the Woods, near Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario (Archives of Ontario; Series: MS929; Reel: 155). His father John Cleland was from Middleville, Ontario while his mother Matilda Catherine Craig was from Dalhousie. The couple married on… Read More »

Walker, William

Private William Walker was the son of William Walker Sr. and Mary Ogston Christie of Keewatin, Ontario. William Sr. was born in Derbyshire, England and his wife was from Aberdeen, Scotland. They both came to Canada in the mid-1880s. They were married in Keewatin in 1887 and they had at least five children: Alexander Christie… Read More »

McIntosh, Donald Fergus

Donald Fergus McIntosh was born on 12 April 1892 in the village of Norman, a community a few kilometres west of Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His parents were Peter Hugh McIntosh and Isobel (Bella) Jamieson, the couple marrying on 30 December 1885 in VanKleek Hill, Ontario. Their first child, son Hamish… Read More »

Linklater, Frank

According to his attestation papers, Frank Linklater was born on 23 August 1881 in the RM of St Andrews, Manitoba. He was the first born child of Charles Patrick Linklater and Margaret Donald who had apparently married on 12 March 1880, both having Métis roots in the Red River Settlement. It appears that the couple… Read More »

Stewart, Harry Raymond

Harry Raymond Stewart was born on 9 March 1894 in the township of Bristol in Pontiac, Quebec. His father Ephraim Stewart was from Bristol while his mother Emma Way was from nearby Shawville, both families farmers. The couple married on 12 August 1891 in Ottawa, the city about 75 kilometres east of Bristol. The next… Read More »