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

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Miller, David Greenhill

The third born child, David Greenhill Miller, was born in Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland on May 24, 1881 to Andrew Miller and Johann Porleous Greenhill. He had 2 older sisters Janet and Mary and his younger siblings were Alexander, George, Joanna  Gilbert and Murray.  David received his education in the ‘Old Country’  Scotland.  He came to… Read More »

Sullivan, Dan

In an article published by the Kenora Miner and News on 5 April 1916, the name of Dan Sullivan was reported as going to Winnipeg to join his unit, Strathcona Horse. His identity and service could not be confirmed.  

Betton, Henry

Good friends: sitting Harry Betton, and Albert Bull Born on 4 April 1896 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, Henry (Harry) Betton was the first born child of John Richard and Lavinia (née Scarisbrick) Betton. John was the son of Philip, occupation engine fitter, and Johanna (Biggins) Betton and Lavinia was the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Stoley)… Read More »

Warder, Harry Cecil

Harry Cecil Warder was born on 12 May 1892 in Beauchamp Roding, Essex, England. He was the youngest child of Nathan Thomas Warder (1849-1906) and Sarah Westwood (1851-1931). Siblings included: Beatrice, Clifford, Ella, John, Eliza, Edith, Lizzie and Alfred. The 1911 England Census shows Harry and two of his brothers, John & Alfred, working as… Read More »

McIntosh, Alexander Arthur

Alexander Arthur McIntosh was born on 23 April 1887 in Hatton on Fintray, a village on the River Don in the parish of Fintray about twenty kilometres northwest of Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His Richard McIntosh was from Echt while his mother Isabella Alexander was from Rayne, both in Aberdeenshire. The couple married on 19… Read More »

Mann, Edward

Canada sent more than 400,000 troops overseas in the First World War and almost 4,000 of them died of illness and disease, with half of those fatalities due to pneumonia and influenza. Private Edward Mann enlisted in September 1916 and died of broncho-pneumonia in France in January 1919, two months after the Armistice. Edward was… Read More »

Findlay, John

John Findlay was born on 13 April 1898 in Newbattle, Midlothian, Scotland, a community about twelve kilometres outside of Edinburgh. His father Samuel Findlay, a miner, was born in 1859 Beith in Ayrshire while his mother Jane Manson was born in 1855 in Dailly, Ayrshire. The couple married on 14 February 1890 in Ayr. They… Read More »

Warnick, Fred

Theodore Woroniak was born on 28 January 1884 in Austria. In later life he went by the name of Fred Warnick. In 1912, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he married Katharine Pouck. At some point after the marriage the couple immigrated to Canada, first living in Winnipeg at the time of the 1916 census, and then in… Read More »

Edwards, John Elias

John Elias Edwards was born on 27 August 1883 in Crook, Helmington Row in the registration district of Bishop Auckland in Durham, England. His parents Joseph Edwards and Emily Williams were from the Ruabon-Rhosllanerchrugog, Denbighshire area of northern Wales but had married on 6 March 1876 in Oldham, Manchester in Lancashire. At the time new… Read More »