Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Windsor, Walter Pat

Walter Cecil Windsor was born on 29 December 1900 in Rat Portage (now Kenora) Ontario. His mother was 16 year old Mary Jane Windsor of Pendleton, Ontario. She gave him the nickname ‘Paddy’ because of the sound his feet made as he ‘padded’ down the hall to see her as she lay ill in bed…. Read More »

Graham, Percy Horace

Percy Horace Graham was born on 6 March 1896 in Lutterworth, Haliburton, Ontario. His parents Richard Allen Graham and Rebecca Jane Bain had married in nearby Kinmount on 4 April 1894. With Richard first working as a labourer, the family was farming in the Lutterworth area by the time of Percy’s birth. The couple gave… Read More »

Beaudro, Rocque Francis

Captain Rocque Francis Beaudro was married and the father of three young boys when he enlisted in May 1916. He served in France with the Canadian Railway Troops and returned to Canada in March 1919. Rocque was the son of Joseph Henry Beaudro (Beaudrault) and Sarah Leger of Kenora, Ontario. He was born on 29… Read More »

Marr, Henry Ernest (Harry)

Private Harry Marr answered the call to serve shortly after the war was declared. Less than two months in Belgium, he was seriously wounded and survived against all odds. Henry Ernest (Harry) Marr was born on 18 April 1894 in Chester-le-Street, Durham, England. His father Henry Marr, a railway booking clerk, was from Manchester, England… Read More »

Beaton, Daniel Percival

Daniel Percival (Percy) Beaton was born on 15 December 1897 in Keewatin, Ontario. He was the son of Dougald Beaton and Mary Anne (Annie) Carmody who had married in 1883 in Rat Portage (now known as Kenora). Percy’s father died in 1900. Percy’s siblings included:  Florence May (1885-1918) who married Cyril Leslie Galloway;  Sarah V…. Read More »

Lovatt, Arthur Russell

Arthur Russell (Happy) Lovatt was born on 18 October 1899 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario, date confirmed by his delayed Ontario birth registration. His father Frederick Charles Lovatt, a carpenter, was from England and had immigrated to Canada with his family as a young child, settling in the Meaford, Ontario area. His mother… Read More »

McDonald, Walter John

According to his baptism record, Walter John (Jack) McDonald was born on 19 November 1896 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Duncan Alexander McDonald was from Ontario while his mother Mary Elizabeth Kerr was from Scotland, the couple marrying on 21 October 1886 in East Selkirk, Manitoba. By the time of the… Read More »

Swan, Douglas Alan

Douglas Alan Swan was born on 2 April 1898 in Keewatin, Ontario, a small town near present day Kenora in northwestern Ontario. His father Henry Ross Swan, the son of Allan Swan and Cecilia Brymner, was born in 1865 in Greenock, Renfrewshire in Scotland. He had immigrated to Canada along with two of his brothers… Read More »

Young, T J

The name of T J Young appeared in the 5 January 1916 edition of the Kenora Miner and News as a new enlistment with the 94th Battalion. However his identity could not be confirmed and he was not on the nominal roll of the battalion.  

Vipond, Howard Cameron

Howard Cameron Vipond was born on September 7, 1888 to Joseph and Janet (Cameron), in Summerstown, Glengarry, Ontario.   By 1910 he was in the Northwest, and married to Laura M. Eastman (1904). When he enlisted, he was working in Dryden as a telegraph operator. He was assigned to the 52nd Battalion. They were sent… Read More »