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

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Carey, Horace Frederick

Date and Location of birth: According to the 1901 England census, Horace Frederick Carey was born in West Ham, Essex, about 1896. His birth was registered in the 4th Quarter, 1895 and he was baptised October 27, 1895 at Barking Road, Essex, England. This birth information differs significantly from the date and location given in… Read More »

Colquhoun, Victor Alexander

Victor Alexander Colquhoun was born on 12 April 1887 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was the son of Andrew Colquhoun and his second wife Gertrude Elizabeth Wheeler. Andrew, born in Quebec, was a wholesale liquor merchant who had married Isabella Orr in 1870 in Montreal. Sometime after giving birth to daughter Clara Gertrude in 1872, the… Read More »

Skeet, Michael

According to his attestation papers, Michael Skeet was born on in September of 1896 at Bear Point on Lake of the Woods, Kenora. He was the son of George and Mawkos Skeet who were both living at the time of attestation. With occupation given as trapper and his father George at Bear Point as next… Read More »

Atcheson, Charles Reynolds

Private Charles Reynolds Atcheson enlisted in June 1915 and served in France and Belgium with the 52nd (New Ontario) Battalion. He returned to Canada in March 1919. Charles was born on 1 November 1894 in Londonderry, County Derry, Ireland. His parents were George William Atcheson and Letitia Ellis Blair. Letitia was George’s first wife and… Read More »

McIntyre, James Allan

By most accounts James Allan McIntyre was born on 16 March 1888 in Orillia, Ontario. His parents James Stephen McIntyre, a carpenter/cabinet maker, was from Edgar, Ontario while his mother Emma Louisa Brunson, a nurse, was from Tiny, Ontario. The couple married on 15 December 1885 in nearby Wyevale, Simcoe County. Settling in Simcoe County,… Read More »

Redsky, James

Private James Redsky enlisted in June 1916 and served with the 52nd Battalion in France and Belgium. He returned to Canada in January 1919. James (Esquakesik) was the son of Chief Redsky (Miskokesik) and Endopeek of Shoal Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario. Chief Redsky and his wife had at least seven sons and five… 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 »

Fuller, Charles Robert

Charles Robert Fuller (known as Robert) was born on 17 November 1870 in Wantage, Berkshire, England.  He was the oldest child and only son of Charles and Mary Ann Fuller. His sisters were: Harriet (b. 1873), Emmeline (b. 1877), Rose (b. 1879), Mary (b. 1882), Beatrice (b. 1885), Lillian (b. 1888), and Esther (b. 1890)…. Read More »

Bolduc, George Joseph

George Joseph Bolduc was born on 28 March 1897 in Norman, a small community in northwestern Ontario a couple of kilometres west of Kenora. His parents David Bolduc and Claudia Labelle, both from Quebec, had married in 1887 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora). The family first lived in nearby Keewatin and then in Norman… Read More »