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

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Hall, Thomas Harold (Harry)

Although Thomas Harold (Harry) Hall gave his place of birth as Pembroke, Ontario on his attestation papers, he was born on 26 April 1891 on the family farm across the Ottawa River in what is present day Sheenboro in Quebec. His parents Louis and Elizabeth (née Sweeney) Hall had married in 1872 in Ottawa. For… Read More »

MacKay, John Hector

John Hector MacKay was born on 8 August 1880 in Kirkdale, Liverpool, England. His father John Hector MacKay was from Scotland and by the time of the 1871 census was boarding in the Samuel and Ann (née Watt) Neish household in Everton, Liverpool, occupation listed as engine driver. On 16 October 1975 in Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool,… Read More »

Howard, Clifford

Clifford Howard was born on 24 August 1897 in Kingston upon Hull (Hull for short), Yorkshire, England. His father was Matthew Edward Howard who worked for the most part as a painter although also found on censuses as a perambulator maker and a hand cart painter. His mother was Sarah Jane Gibson. The couple had… Read More »

Zaremba, Michael

Michael Zaremba was born on the 21 May 1894 in Russia. By 14 July 1915 when he enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force for service in WW1, he was living in Montreal, Quebec and had the occupation of labourer.  He joined the 41st Battalion and arrived in England on 28 October 1915.  The following June… Read More »

Nestok, Martin

According to his later obituary, Martin Nestok was born on 16 March 1890 in Russia. Although a record was not found, the 1921 Canada census suggested that he immigrated to Canada in 1910. On 2 June 1915, in Port Arthur, Ontario, Martin signed his attestation papers. His place of birth was given as Gorodnos (Grodno),… Read More »

Betton, John Richard

Although his attestation papers say that he was born on 3 April 1898 in Liverpool, England, John  Richard Betton’s birth registration was for 1899.  He was the third born child of John Richard and Lavinia (Scarisbrick) Betton. His father John was the son of Philip, occupation engine fitter, and Johanna (Biggins) Betton and Lavinia was the… Read More »

Smith, Henry

Joseph Alexandre Lanctot was born on 6 August 1889 in Montreal, baptized in the parish church of St Vincent de Paul. His parents were Benoni/Beloni Lanctot, a day labourer, and Philomene David. Known children born to the family in Montreal were Marie Philomene Louise (1884), Alexandre, Marie Rose (1892), Joseph Benoni Leopold (1896), Marie Jeanne… Read More »

Still, Andrew

Stoker Andrew Still was born in Scotland and living in Canada when the war started. He returned to the UK and joined the Royal Naval Reserve in February 1918, serving with them for fifteen months. Andrew was born on 8 June 1887 in the parish of Grange, Banffshire, Scotland. His parents were Robert Still, a… Read More »

Campbell, Angus Oscar

Angus Oscar Campbell was born on 15 June 1890 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario, date confirmed by his Ontario birth record. According to the 1891 census his father John Bow Campbell, a house painter, was from Scotland while his mother Mary Buckley was born in Ontario. Angus had three older siblings, all born… Read More »

Fraser, John James

John James Fraser was born on 22 August 1877 in Dundee, New Brunswick, a small sister community of Dalhousie in the county of Restigouche in northeastern New Brunswick. His attestation papers gave his father John Fraser as next of kin but John was actually his stepfather. Born in Nova Scotia, James’ father was David Grant… Read More »