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

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Montalbetti, Peter Charles

Peter Charles Montalbetti was born on 31 January 1897 in Kenora (Rat Portage at the time), Ontario according to his delayed birth record of 1933. He was the son of Joseph and Rosa Montalbetti, Joseph working as a section foreman for the Canadian Pacific Railway in the area at the time. By the time of… Read More »

Panton, Leonard Arthur Cattanach

Dr. Leonard Arthur Cattanach Panton served from June 1915 to September 1919 with the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Canadian Army Medical Corps. He was wounded at Gallipoli and after recovering he went on to serve in Canada, Great Britain and China. Leonard was the son of James Hoyes Panton and Mary Jemima Drummond… Read More »

Landry, Alexandre

Private Alexandre Landry was called up in November 1917 in Winnipeg. He arrived in France ten months later and served with the 52nd (New Ontario) Battalion in the last weeks of the war. Alexandre was born on 23 May 1894 in Village-Saint-Paul, Grand Anse, Gloucester County, New Brunswick. His parents, Levi Landry and Marie Louise… Read More »

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 »

Letain, Jules Vital

Private Jules Vital Letain was the son of Jean Baptiste Letain and Felicité Eugénie Husson of Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba. Jean Baptiste and Eugénie were both born in Belgium. They were married in 1888 and their first two children were born in Belgium, daughters Eugénie, who died as an infant, and Marie. Jean Baptiste, his… Read More »

Parrott, Cecil Leroi

Cecil Leroi (Roy) Parrott was born on 4 February 1893 in Oxbow, the Territories (now Saskatchewan). His father Robert James Parrott, the son of Irish immigrants, was from Bathurst, New Brunswick while his mother Naomi Caroline Sproule was from the Brock, Ontario area. The couple had married in 1887 in Cornwallis, Manitoba where Robert’s brother… Read More »

Scott, G M

As reported in the Kenora Miner and News on 2 April 1919, the towns of Kenora and Keewatin held a large reception in the Tourist Hotel for returning veterans. On the list was G M Scott. His identity could not be confirmed.    

Fortier, Joseph Alfred

Joseph Antoine Orphidas (Alfridas) Fortier was born on 2 February 1896 in St Boniface, Manitoba. In his early life he went by the name of Alfridas, Alfred, or Doss but in later life as Joseph. His parents were Joseph and Exilda (née Leblanc) Fortier who had married in St Boniface on 4 July 1891. Joseph… Read More »

McShane, Patrick

According to his attestation papers, Patrick McShane was born on 26 January 1891 in County Londonderry in northern Ireland. An age appropriate Patrick was found on the 1901 census for Lettershendony, Tamnaherin, Londonderry, not far from the city of Londonderry. Household members were listed as head Ellen McShane (age 45), a married seamstress, and children… Read More »

Jarrett, William Joseph

Corporal William Joseph Jarrett was married and the father of six children when he enlisted in March 1917. He survived the war and returned home in 1919 but less than two years later he was killed in a train accident at work. William was born in London, England on 13 September 1877, the youngest child… Read More »