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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Archibald Porteous (Archie) McCowan was born on 23 January 1898 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. His father James Archibald McCowan, born in 1850, was from Scarborough, Ontario. He had married his first wife Isabelle Bowes, a Scottish immigrant, in 1875 in Pickering although the couple were to make Scarborough/Toronto their home. Together James and Isabelle… Read More »
Date of birth listed on Attestation Paper listed is 12 August 1897. George Hiram Page was born in Marlow Bucks, England and moved with his family to Canada in 1908. On 17 August, 1915 George enlisted for WW1 in Kenora, Ontario. He arrived in England on 8 December 1915, and landed in France on 20… Read More »
Purdy Lindsay Baker was born on 26 September 1896 in West Jeddore, Nova Scotia. Jeddore is a Canadian rural coastal community in Nova Scotia’s Halifax Regional Municipality. The community itself comprises several smaller communities, East Jeddore, West Jeddore, Head of Jeddore, and Jeddore Oyster Pond. Purdy’s father John Henry Baker was from Jeddore Oyster Pond… Read More »
Private Charles ‘Ted’ Rowbottom was living in Kenora, Ontario with his wife and two young children when the war started. He enlisted four months later and served overseas until July 1916, when he was wounded for the second time. His health deteriorated over the next few years and he died in England in July 1919…. Read More »
Father François Marie Costiou, OMI, was born in France and living in Canada when the war started. He returned to France in the fall of 1916 and served in the French Army until February 1919. François was the son of Charles Costiou and Jeanne Lusson of Loc-maria, Canton of St. Renan, Finistère, France. He was… Read More »
Private Albert Savage was born in England and living in Canada when the war started. He returned to the UK and enlisted with the Royal Army Service Corps, serving with them for four years. Albert was born in 1888 or 1889 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. He immigrated to Canada around 1911 and lived in Regina,… Read More »
Private Henry William Parsons enlisted in Winnipeg in October 1914, just a few months after the start of the war. He served overseas for three years, returning to Canada in the spring of 1918. Henry was born in Exeter, a river port city in the county of Devon in southwest England. His parents, William Thomas… Read More »
Reginald Charles Walter Seller was born in Devonshire, England on 26 October 1899. His parents were Walter William Victor Seller and Eliza Jane Bryant. Siblings included Victor Hugh Seller and Roy Granville Seller. In March of 1906 the family immigrated to Canada and settled in Oak Point, Manitoba. The 1911 Canadian census shows Eliza Jane… Read More »
Ralph Stanley Bateman was the youngest child of blacksmith Collingwood Bateman and Mary Ann Nicholson. He was born 21 March 1880 in Goole, Yorkshire, England. His siblings included: Collingwood, Rebecca, Ada, William G., and Harold S. In 1901 Ralph was still living in Goole, working as a timber merchant clerk. Then in March 1905… Read More »
Sapper Robert Charles Thompson enlisted in April 1915 and died at the Somme about a year and a half later. His younger brothers William and Clifford also enlisted and they both survived the war. Robert was the oldest son of William Richmond Thompson Sr. and Elizabeth O’Hara. According to census records William Sr. and Elizabeth… Read More »
