Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Hughes, James

Acting Corporal James Hughes was married and the father of three young daughters when he enlisted in 1915. He was wounded at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and he served in Great Britain for the rest of the war, returning to Canada in July 1919. James was born in Duntocher, Dunbartonshire, Scotland… Read More »

Muggaberg, Walter George

Private Walter George Muggaberg was the son of Julius Muggaberg Jr. and Margaret Ann Park. Julius was likely born in the Northwest Territories or in the Red River Settlement, which became part of Manitoba. His father was from Norway and his mother was Scottish Métis. By 1881 his family had moved to Rat Portage, Ontario…. Read More »

Odam, Ernest

Ernest Odam was one of the group nicknamed the ‘Peterborough Boys’ from Kenora, Ontario.   These men came from England to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway.   They were all single young men who lived across from the railroad station at the newly built YMCA.   They knew each other well and quickly became… Read More »

Jarvis, Arthur Henry

More than 11,000 employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company enlisted for service in the First World War. Sergeant Arthur Henry Jarvis was working for the CPR when he signed up in 1914 and he served for over four years, returning to Canada in January 1919. Arthur was the son of William Edward Alfred Jarvis… Read More »

Laine, Charles Foulsham

Acting Corporal Charles Foulsham Laine was born on 21 February 1888 in Gateshead, Durham, England. His father, William Henry Laine, was born in Ireland and his mother, Phoebe Emily Smith, in Norwich, England. They were married in 1880 in Newcastle upon Tyne and they had five sons: William Foulsham (1883, died as an infant), William… Read More »

Mathieu, Romuald

Private Romuald (Ronald) Mathieu was born in 1892 in St. Antoine Abbé, Huntingdon County, Quebec. According to his baptism record he was born on 2 November but most other records have his birth date as 31 October. His parents were Noë Mathieu, a farmer, and Marie Paméla Pied. Noë and Paméla were both born in… Read More »

Pepper, Halsey James

Captain Halsey James Pepper was commissioned as an officer in March 1916 and he served for three years in Canada, Great Britain and France. A few years after the war ended he moved to Los Angeles, California where he died by suicide in 1928. Halsey was born on 22 March 1867 in Wokingham, Berkshire, England…. Read More »

Coltman, William Whitehead

William Whitehead Coltman was born on 9 February 1891 in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. His father John Coltman, a wool packer, was from Buchlyvie while his mother Ann Hutton was from the Dunmore-Airth area, both in Stirlingshire. The couple married on 26 November 1896 in Alloa. Their first child, John was born the next year, followed… Read More »

MacPherson, Peter

Peter MacPherson was born on 14 October 1897 in the district of Hutchesontown in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Peter MacPherson, a shoemaker, was born in 1877 in Stair, Ayrshire while his mother Elizabeth McLintock was born in 1862 in Inch, Wigtown. As a child Elizabeth’s family’s surname was McClinton, changed to McLintock when the family… Read More »

Hudson, Gordon Milford

Bombardier Gordon Milford Hudson was called up in April 1918 and served in Canada for a year. After the war he had a long and successful career in curling and he was inducted into both the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame. Gordon was the older of two sons… Read More »