Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Seller, Reginald

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 »

Brash, Frederick William

Private Frederick William Brash was called up for service in February 1918, at age 21. He served for a year in Canada. Frederick was born on 14 March 1896 in Thessalon, District of Algoma, Ontario. His parents were Robert Alexander Brash, a lumberman, and his second wife Hannah Copeland. Robert had a son, Robert Earl,… Read More »

Snider, Norman Wray

Norman Wray Snider was born on 30 July 1898 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. His parents were merchant John Henry Snider and Mary Ellen Dulmadge. Siblings included Florence May (1890-1976), Pearl (1892- ?), Albert (1895-1898) and Fern(1905-1990). Norman was attending the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto when he enlisted with the Canadian… Read More »

Bates, Ira

Ira Bates was born on 17 March 1890 in Penetanguishene, Simcoe, Ontario.   His parents were Robert Bates, a lumberman, and Catherine Quigley. Ira had two brothers, James and Walter; and two sisters, Elizabeth and Nora. Ira’s mother died in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario in 1898, and the family was still living in… Read More »

Curtis, Howard Winfred

Private Howard Winfred Curtis enlisted in February 1916 and served in France with the 8th Battalion. He was wounded at the Battle of the Somme and died in November 1916. Howard was the youngest son of Susan Tomlin and Charles William Curtis. Charles was born in Manitoba and grew up in Portage la Prairie. When… Read More »

Baker, Ernest Roland

Sergeant Ernest Roland Baker enlisted in January 1916 and served in France with the 44th Battalion. He was wounded in June 1917 and spent the rest of the war in Great Britain, returning to Canada in February 1919. Ernest was the son of George Baker and Ann Jane Watts of London, England. Ann was born… Read More »

Bernuy, Gabriel Eugene

Gabriel Eugene Bernuy was born on 6 May 1898 in Jujurieux, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France. His parents François Bernuy, a grocer, and Josephine Guiguet married on 23 October 1886. Children born to the couple were Noël François Victor (1887), Louis (1889), Jean Marius (John) (1893), Emile Joseph (1894), and Gabriel. Victor was the first to immigrate… Read More »

Dion, Angus Auguste

Private Angus Auguste Dion was the son of Ferdinand (Frank) Joseph Dion and Emilie Michaud. Ferdinand and Emilie were both born in Quebec. By the early 1880s they were married and living in the Keewatin/Rat Portage area in northwestern Ontario, where Ferdinand worked in a sawmill. They had at least eight children: Wilfred (1883), Josephine… 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 »

Darling, Edward Victor

Edward Victor Darling was an assistant secretary with the YMCA in Kenora when war broke out. Born in Perth Road Village, Frontenac County, Ontario on January 8, 1893, his father Ira was a blacksmith by trade. When Edward was about six years old his family moved to the community of Inverary. The 1901 census lists… Read More »