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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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On 22 February 1934 Walter A. Ryckman joined the Kenora branch of the Canadian Legion. He was living in Minaki at the time, a small community north of Kenora. His application lists his rank as Staff Sergeant and his service as 5 May 1915 to 22 January 1919. He enlisted in Belleville, Ontario with the… Read More »
Joseph Philippe Alexandre Fugere was born on 12 March 1887 in Maria, Quebec, a community on the southeast coast of the Gaspé Peninsula about 70 kilometres from the New Brunswick border. His father Boniface Fugere was a farmer and had married Philippe’s mother Elizabeth Glawser on 12 January 1886 in nearby Carlton. Boniface’s first wife… Read More »
The final period of the war is known now as the Hundred Days Offensive. The Canadians were heavily involved in the battles and they suffered 20% of their total battle casualties in those last three months of the war. One of the fallen was Corporal Robert Currie, who was killed in action in France in… Read More »
James Deer was born during the second quarter of 1885 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England. His parents were Thomas and Rachel (née Witpen) Deer. Thomas was born in West Watting, Cambridgeshire and Rachel in Oxford, London. The couple married during the first quarter of 1874 in St Saviour, Southwark, London. For the 1881 England census the… Read More »
Lieutenant Leslie Fergus Cameron enlisted in December 1914 and went overseas with the 43rd Battalion (Cameron Highlanders). He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in April 1917 and served as a Flight Officer (Observer). Leslie was born on 7 July 1896 in the town of Rat Portage in northwestern Ontario. His birth was registered as… Read More »
Alfred Henry (Harry) Friend was born on 22 May 1880 in Totterdown, Bristol Gloucestershire, England. His father Silas Samuel Friend, an engine fitter by trade, was from Corsham in Wiltshire while his mother Ellen Tinker was from Stirt, also in Wiltshire. Silas and Ellen had married in 1878 in the registration district of Barton Regis, Gloucestershire…. Read More »
Andrew Dempster was one of four brothers, the sons of John and Catherine Dempster, to volunteer for service during the war. He had been born on 08 August 1887 in Stirling, Scotland. The family included John (1861) and Catherine (1861); sons William (1894), Thomas (1887), his twin brother Andrew (1887); Daniel (1888); John (1896) and… Read More »
The son of Frances Emily Browne, John Brown was born on 22 June 1885 in Fulham, (London), Middlesex, England. Frances, born in Dublin, Ireland, was the daughter of Charles Henry and Jane Matilda (née Smith) Browne who had married in 1856 in Islington, London. The 1891 England census for Fulham found John living with his… Read More »
Benjamin was born to Joseph Wills and Beatrice King on 11 December 1890, in the Cornwall district of England. In the 1901 English census he was living with his mother and sisters Minnie (4 years older), Lillie (two years younger) and Olive (8 years younger). He was in Canada when he enlisted as an expat,… Read More »
The name of David M Dickson appeared in two editions of the Kenora Miner and News in August of 1914 as one of the recent volunteers for the war. A third article published in February of 1915 mistakenly contained his name as having arrived in France with the first contingent. However a David M Dickson… Read More »
