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

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Portier, Clement

Clement Portier was born on 29 August 1899 in Lagorce, Ardeche, France. As a young lad he immigrated to Canada from France via New York with his parents Victor and Marie Justine (née Leydier) Portier and siblings Celina (1895-1948) and Victor (1897-1979) in August of 1902. The family settled in Norman, Ontario, a small community… Read More »

McMullan, Frank

According to his attestation papers, Francis McMullan was born in Dublin Ireland on June 16, 1883. In 1903 he married Annie Johnson, daughter of William Johnson and Marion Rennie, in London, England. Daughter Marion Annie was born in December 1904 and son Herbert in March 1907. The family immigrated to Canada on the Empress of… Read More »

Lowe, Thomas (1875-1918)

The final period of the war, known now as the Hundred Days Offensive, started with the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918. The four-day operation was a remarkable success for the Canadians but it cost them over 11,000 casualties. One of the fallen was Private Thomas Lowe of Kenora, Ontario. Thomas was originally from… Read More »

MacKenzie, Harry Stuart

Harry Stuart MacKenzie was one of three sons and two daughters of William and Lizzie Mackenzie, of Kenora, Ontario.  His parents were born  in Scotland and emigrated separately to Canada in the 1880s, meeting and marrying in Brandon, Manitoba in 1889 where William worked as a dry goods store clerk. Harry, born in 1893, was… Read More »

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 »

Carmichael, Hugh Melville

Underground mines have been used in warfare for a few hundred years but in the First World War it was on a much larger scale than ever before. On 6 June 1916 the Germans blew up four huge mines under a system of trenches near Hooge in Belgium and the explosion killed almost all the… Read More »

Harrison, Edmund William

Edmund William Harrison was born on 2 September 1883 in Souris, Manitoba, birth registered in the RM of Glenwood. His father James Morrell Harrison was from Ontario while his mother Annie Phillips was born in Scotland. James was a Methodist minister and like many Methodist ministers of the day was sent west in the early… Read More »

Dunmall, Arthur

Private Arthur Dunmall enlisted in March 1915 and served for four years in the UK, France and Belgium. He survived the war and returned to Canada in August 1919. Arthur was the son of Albert Dunmall and Eliza Foster of Tonbridge, Kent, England. Albert was a butcher by trade and he owned and operated a… Read More »

Wickstrom, Isaac Albert

Isak Albert Wikström was born on 9 August 1888 in Bälinge, NederluleГҐ in Norrbotten, Sweden. Bälinge is in northern Sweden close to the Finland border. His parents Nils Petter Wikström and Maria Langström were both from the area, marrying on 19 October 1873 in Bälinge. In the various Swedish records Nils’ occupation was given as… Read More »

Allen, Christopher Charles

Christopher Charles Allen was known as ‘Charlie’ and signed his book C.C. Allen. The book, ‘OUR FIRST 60 YEARS – A STORY OF A CARIBOO PIONEER’, provides an interesting account of his life.Charlie was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England on 27 Oct 1890. His parents were Charles Allen and Sarah Moulding. He had an older… Read More »