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

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Trimble, Thomas Burgess

Thomas Burgess Trimble was born on 23 July 1891 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father Edward Trimble was from Crosthwaite, Cumberland in England while his mother Mary Jane Jackson was from nearby Arcledon, Cumberland, both communities in the Registration District of Cockermouth. The couple married during the last quarter of 1869 in the RD of… Read More »

Tweedie, Louis Herwald

Private Louis Herwald Tweedie was born in either Rat Portage or Norman, Ontario on 8 February 1893. He had an older brother Roswell Dawson and two younger sisters, Hazel and Olive, all born in Norman or Rat Portage (now called Kenora). His father, Eusebius Dawson Tweedie, was from Carlton Place, Ontario and his mother, Christina… Read More »

Wainewright, Aubrey

When Aubrey Wainewright signed his attestation papers in Brandon, Manitoba on 13 November 1915, he gave his  date of birth as 5 April 1883, his place  of birth as Athlone, Ireland, and his middle name as Patrick. He also gave his father AW Wainewright of Iken Rectory, Tunstall, Suffolk as next of kin. As confirmed… Read More »

Benson, Bjornstjerni

Bjornstjerne Benson (alias Johnson) was born in Langruth, Manitoba. He had five brothers: Ben, Chris, Karl, Bladur and Carl, and two sisters, Gudny and Margaret. His parents were Bjorn Benedictson and Sigridur Jonsdottir. He was born 01 March, 1900, and his father was a farmer. Just after his 18th birthday, Bjorn attested with the Fort… Read More »

Lutz, George Barrett

George Barrett Lutz was born on 15 October 1895 in Vermilion Bay, Ontario, a village located about 100 kilometres east of Kenora in northwestern Ontario. His father Samuel Busby Lutz was from the Moncton area of New Brunswick where the family farmed. His mother Lilly Ann Killam was also from New Brunswick, her family living… Read More »

Halliday, William Charles

Private William Charles Halliday was sent to Canada as a Home Child in 1905. He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force a few months after the war started. In 1916, while he was in England being treated for wounds, he saw his mother for the first time in eleven years. He recovered from his injuries… Read More »

Hill, Louis John

Louis John Hill was born December 7, 1883 in Strathroy, Bruce County, Ontario (birth registered as John Lewis Hill). His parents were John James Hill and Anna Bella Doman. John James, a cooper (barrel maker) by trade, had been born in Ontario in 1854 to Irish immigrant parents, and Anna Bella was born in Ireland… Read More »

Fraser, Millard

Millard Andrew Fraser was born on 18 August 1892 in Keewatin, Ontario. His parents, Hugh Fraser (1849-1934) and Isabella Margaret MacLeod (1862-1944) were from Campbellton, New Brunswick where they married in 1883. The family spent time in Quebec where three children, Margaret (1884- 1958), Mary (1886-1971) and James (1887-1898) were born. By 1890 they were… Read More »

Boquist, William Norman

William Norman Boquist was born on 09 October 1895 in Bodo, Nordland, Norway. His parents were Gustaf and Marie Boquist.  At the age of nine, William and his mother immigrated to Canada to join his father who was working as a contractor in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. They left Liverpool aboard the Tunisian on 06… Read More »

Cassels, John Stewart

Born on 31 July 1886 in Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, Scotland, John Stewart Cassels was the son of George and Jemina (née Milton) Cassels. His parents had married in 1883 in Banchory Ternan, Kincardineshire. For the 1891 Scotland census the family was living in Minklets West, Banchory Ternan, occupation of his father given as farm servant. Children… Read More »