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

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Scarfe, James Talbot

James Talbot Scarfe was born on 1 October 1877 in Leeds, Yorkshire in England. His father George John Scarfe was born in Ireland while his mother Alice Mary Talbot was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in England. The couple married on 19 October 1876 in Trinity Church in Marylebone, London. George and his father James before… Read More »

Winter, George Wilfred

Gunner George Wilfred Winter enlisted with the Canadian Field Artillery in April 1917. He served for two years in Canada, the UK, France and Belgium. George was the youngest son of John Roantree Winter and Clara Lucinda Tremear. John and Clara were both born in Ontario and they were married in 1891 in Pickering, Ontario… Read More »

Steele, David Carswell

Private David Carswell Steele enlisted with the 52nd Battalion in August 1915. He served overseas in England, France and Belgium and returned to Canada with his unit in March 1919. David was the son of James Steele (Steel) and Agnes Carswell of Keewatin, Ontario. James and Agnes were both born in Scotland and at the… Read More »

Howard, Frederick

Frederick Howard was born on 17 December 1899 in Hull, Yorkshire, England.   He was one of thirteen children of Mathew Edward Howard (a painter) and Sarah Jane Gibson.   His siblings included Beatrice, John Edward, Ann, Dora, Ada, Clifford, Elsie, Edith, Harriet Ann, Donald, Leonard and Ethel. Matthew Howard immigrated to Canada in June… Read More »

Wright, G

In the spring of 1919 the towns of Kenora and Keewatin held a reception at the Tourist Hotel in Kenora to welcome back the veterans from the war. In an article about it published in the Kenora Miner and News on 2 April 1919, the name of G Wright appeared on the list. His identity… Read More »

Clarkson, John Gordon

Lance Sergeant John Gordon Clarkson enlisted in November 1915 and served overseas with the 116th Battalion. He was seriously wounded in the last months of the war and he returned to Canada in May 1919 to continue his convalescence. Gordon was born on 31 March 1891 in Rat Portage, Ontario, the youngest son of James… Read More »

Staveley, George Herbert

  George Herbert Staveley was born on 29 September 1883 in Manchester, Lancashire, England. Their first born child, his parents George, an engine fitter, and Jane Ann (née Johnson) Staveley were both from Manchester. Other children born to the family were Annie Beatrice (1884) and John (1886). By the 1891 England census George Sr had… Read More »

Nicolson, Murdoch

Murdoch (Murdo) Nicolson was born on February 26, 1890 in Inverness Scotland. His father, John Nicolson, was a shepherd. His mother’s forename was Kristina/Christie (nee Nicolson). Siblings included: Donald (b. 1880), Archie (b. 1881), Rachel (b. 1884), Hugh (b. 1889), John (b. 1900) and Alexander (b. 1901). When Murdoch immigrated to Canada in April of… Read More »

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 »

Dumma, William Silver

William Silver Dumma was born to William Dumma and Janet (Silver) Dumma on December 20th, 1880 in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland.  His father William Senior was listed as a Superintendent of Housing in Edinburgh in 1881. There were seven children, including: Margaret (1866-71); Helen Hay (1867-1852); James (1868-1953, came to Canada in 1894, worked… Read More »