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

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Lalonde, Alexander

Private Alexander Lalonde was married and the father of two young children when he enlisted in February 1916. He served overseas for three years and returned home in June 1919. Alexander was the son of Alexander Lalonde Sr. and Jane Barnes of Moose Creek, Stormont County, Ontario. Alexander Sr. and Jane were married in 1884… Read More »

Smith, Arthur

Family and Early Life: Arthur  was born in the Parish of Great Glen, Town of Leicester, County of Leicestershire, England on October 10, 1878. He was the son of Alfred Smith and Harriet Tailby King. The family was recorded in Rawmarsh, Yorkshire in the 1881 British census, when Alfred was a railway porter. For the… Read More »

McIvor, Percy Roy

According to his attestation papers, Percy Roy McIvor was born on 21 July 1889 in Odessa, Ontario. He was the first born child of Henry and Minerva (née Walker) McIvor who farmed in/near the village of Cataraqui on the outskirts of Kingston, about 15 kilometres from Odessa. Other known children born to the family were… Read More »

Dalziel, John Thomas

Acting Sergeant John Thomas Dalziel was the only son of John Law Dalziel and Mary Agnes Hunter of Kenora, Ontario. John Law was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland and immigrated to Canada as a young man. He lived briefly in Winnipeg, Manitoba before settling in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora). Mary was born in Ayrshire, Scotland… Read More »

Green, Alfred James

Lance Corporal Alfred James Green was the youngest son of James Calder Green and Margaret McLeod of North Vancouver, British Columbia. His parents both immigrated to Canada from Scotland, James as a child in the early 1860s and Margaret in 1884. They were married in Rat Portage, Ontario in September 1886. They settled in Rat… Read More »

Smith, Francis Jacob

Smith brothers Frank (seated) and David (standing), 1918 Francis Jacob Smith was born on 19 May 1895, birth registered in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. Both from Quebec, his parents were Jacob Smith, a baker, and Catherine Coile, the couple marrying in 1876 in Montreal. (Unmarried at the time of Catherine’s birth,… Read More »

Parfitt, William Joseph

William Joseph Parfitt was born on 29 March 1886 in St. George’s, London, England. His parents were Fred Parfitt and Elizabeth Woodhouse. Siblings included: Frederick John (b. 1882), Catherine Emma (1884-1972; married Edwin Thomas Barnard), Agnes Elizabeth (1887-1935; married Albert Deverell), Minnie Jessie (1890-1980; married Alfred Balchin), and David George (1891-1916). In 1901 at age… Read More »

Lovatt, Arthur Russell

Arthur Russell (Happy) Lovatt was born on 18 October 1899 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario, date confirmed by his delayed Ontario birth registration. His father Frederick Charles Lovatt, a carpenter, was from England and had immigrated to Canada with his family as a young child, settling in the Meaford, Ontario area. His mother… Read More »

Knox, Thomas Robert

Robert Knox was born in Linaskea, Fermanagh, Ireland, the son of Dr. Thomas Knox and Louisa Sandels. A bank clerk, in 1913 he immigrated to Canada, arriving at St. John New Brunswick aboard the Letitia. He was bound for Toronto where he’d gained a position with the Imperial Bank, and he was then transferred to… Read More »