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

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Lusty, Thomas

Thomas, with the surname of Dalton, was born on 20 April 1894 in the Liverpool Workhouse in Liverpool, England. His mother was Catherine Canning who was born in 1859 in Liverpool. Catherine married William Gilray, a mariner, in November of 1877 in Liverpool. In February of 1880 she then married William Lawson, Catherine listed as… Read More »

McKellar, David Gibson

Birth and Early Life:   David Gibson McKellar was born May 18th, 1893 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland, the youngest child of Peter and Grace (Gibson) McKellar. Peter, who was born 1864 in Helensburgh, and Grace, who was born in 1864 in Sandiford, St. Quivox, were married in Maybole in 1886.   As their family grew,… Read More »

Henderson, John

John Henderson was born in Scotland and working as a locomotive fireman with the Canadian Pacific Railway in Kenora when he enlisted with Kenora’s first group of 45 volunteers, joining the 98th Regiment and going to Valcartier as part of Canada’s initial war commitment. On his attestation papers he noted four years service with the… Read More »

Fuller, Charles Robert

Charles Robert Fuller (known as Robert) was born on 17 November 1870 in Wantage, Berkshire, England.  He was the oldest child and only son of Charles and Mary Ann Fuller. His sisters were: Harriet (b. 1873), Emmeline (b. 1877), Rose (b. 1879), Mary (b. 1882), Beatrice (b. 1885), Lillian (b. 1888), and Esther (b. 1890)…. Read More »

Hawkinson, Cornelius

Cornelius Hawkinson was born on 3 September 1895 in the Murdock, Swift County area of Minnesota, USA where his parents farmed. His father John Hakenson was born in Sweden, his surname anglicized to Hawkinson after immigration. His mother Anna Josephine Peterson was born in Minnesota to Swedish immigrants. John and Josephine married on 10 November… Read More »

Hermanson, Sveinn (Steven)

Sveinn (Steven) Hermanson was the son of Gudjon (Joseph)and Magdalen (Sigurdottur) Hermanson, born on 13 October 1893 in ReykjavГ­k, Iceland according to his attestation papers. In his early years in Canada he went by the name of Sveinn but during the war he adopted the name of Steven. It appears that he may have immigrated… Read More »

Seller, Frank

Sapper Frank Seller enlisted in February 1916 at age 18 and served overseas for 2-1/2 years, most of that time as a signaller. He returned to Canada in May 1919. Frank was the youngest son of William Henry and Louisa Seller of Winnipeg, Manitoba. William and Louisa (née Morgan) were both born in the county… Read More »

Conn, Robert William

Captain Robert William Conn was commissioned as an officer in the Canadian Army Dental Corps in August 1916. He served in Great Britain for sixteen months and was invalided home to Canada in September 1918. Robert William was born on 17 November 1881 in Stonewall, Manitoba. He was the oldest of at least ten children… Read More »

Gibson, Alexander

Birth date and location: Alexander Gibson was born  in his parents’ home  on an autumn morning, September 7, 1885 in Newton, Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland.   He was the second child of Alexander Gibson, a Journeyman Currier  and Agnes Crawford  Miller. Agnes and Alexander  were married November 10, 1882, in Agnes’s hometown of Dailly, Alexander.  In… Read More »

Erzinger, Charles Salisbury

Charles Salisbury Erzinger was born on 30 December 1896 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father John Erzinger was born in 1855 in Schaffausen, Switzerland and had immigrated to the United States at age 16 according to his obituary. After spending a couple of years in St Louis, Missouri and a short time in Chicago, he moved… Read More »