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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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According to his British Columbia death record, Norman Joseph Camille Jolin was born on 15 December 1894 in Norman, Ontario, a village a couple of kilometres west of Kenora in northwestern Ontario. His father Achille (Archie) Jolin was from St Henedine, Quebec while it appears that his mother Emma Bernard was born in Minnesota although… Read More »
Herbert Gordon Travis was born on 18 October 1889 in Birtle, Manitoba. His father Herbert Travis, a music teacher/professor, was from England while his mother Edith Florine Emily Wood was from Arkona in southwestern Ontario, having moved to Manitoba with her parents and siblings as a child. The couple married on 11 March 1885 in… Read More »
Lieutenant Ernest John Clarke served in the militia before the war then enlisted in July 1916 and went to France with the 50th Battalion. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He served again in the Second World War with the Veterans Guard of Canada. Ernest was the son of James Herbert Clarke and Rose… Read More »
Ernest James Gander was born on 18 May 1884 in Upper Dicker, Arlington, Sussex in England. His parents were Albert and Jane Ann (née Martin) Gander. The children born to the family were Albert Edward, George Henry, Bessie, Ernest, Edith, and Ellen Louise. For the 1891 census the family was residing in Arlington, father’s occupation… Read More »
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 »
Private Medore Cardinal was 40 years old, married and the father of eight children when he enlisted in March 1917. He served in England and France for fourteen months, returning to Canada due to illness in June 1918. Medore was the oldest son of Medore Cardinal and Mathilde Richer of Pain Court, Kent County, Ontario…. Read More »
Francis (Frank) Wait was born on 29 November 1885 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His parents Isaac Wait, a bricklayer, and Jane McGuigan were both from the Ottawa area, marrying on 9 August 1875 in Ottawa. Children born to the couple in Ottawa were Arthur John (1876), Mary Agnes Maud (1877),… Read More »
Private Hubert Weldon Hamilton was the oldest son of John Matthew Hamilton and Margaret Carmichael of Copper Cliff, Ontario. He was born on 7 March 1895 in Pembroke, Renfrew County, Ontario and his family moved to Copper Cliff when he was a child. His father was a butcher and both of his parents were born… Read More »
Adam Martin was born on 4 August 1886 in Partick, Lanarkshire in Scotland. His father Adam Martin, an engine turner journeyman, was from Govan while his mother Catherine Boyd was from Greenock, both in Scotland. The couple had married on 31 December 1882 in the Plantation District of Govan. Adam Sr had previously been involved… Read More »
John William McLachlan was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, baptized on 12 June 1889 and birth registered during the 3rd quarter of the year. His parents John McLachlan and Maria Clarke were both from Liverpool and had married the previous year. By the 1891 census John, Maria, and young John were living with Maria’s brother… Read More »
