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

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Lake, James Alfred

James Alfred Lake was born on 13 January 1873 in Blairton, Peterborough County, Ontario. His father was Wellington Lake who was from Sidney in Hastings County while his mother Ellen Simpson was from Scotland. By the time of the 1861 census the couple was married with one son, John Bidwell, and living in Sidney. By… Read More »

Brown, John T

The son of Frances Emily Browne, John Brown was born on 22 June 1885 in Fulham, (London), Middlesex, England. Frances, born in Dublin, Ireland, was the daughter of Charles Henry and Jane Matilda (née Smith) Browne who had married in 1856 in Islington, London. The 1891 England census for Fulham found John living with his… Read More »

Kennedy, Jean Victoria

Jean Victoria Kennedy was born on 6 May 1896 in Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario. Her father Robert Alexander Kennedy, a first generation Irish Canadian, was originally from Uxbridge, Ontario (b 8 January 1860) although by the 1871 census the family had moved to Gloucester, Russell near Ottawa to farm. Her mother Victoria Jane (Jennie) Dent was… Read More »

Cleland, Edward John

Edward John Cleland was born on 14 August 1898 in Sifton (Oak Lake), Manitoba (birth registration: Manitoba 1898, 001253). His father John Cleland was from Middleville, Ontario while his mother Matilda Catherine Craig was from Dalhousie. The couple married on 6 March 1895 in Wilbur although John had been working in nearby Clyde Forks. Shortly… Read More »

Armstrong, Robert Wharton

According to his attestation papers Robert Wharton Armstrong was born on 14 October 1891 in South Shields, Durham in England. His father Robert Wharton Armstrong was from Sunderland in Durham while his mother Etta Moore was from High Shields, Durham, the couple marrying during the 3rd quarter of 1890. Robert was their first born child… Read More »

Graves, Percy Phillip

Private Percy Phillip Graves enlisted in 1916 at age 17 and served for three and a half years. He suffered gas poisoning and became very ill during the influenza epidemic but he recovered and returned to Canada in July 1919. After the war he had a long career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Percy… Read More »

Gault, Robert

Robert was the oldest son of John and Eliza Gault of Keewatin, Ontario. He was born in Hastings County, Ontario in June 1865 or 1866. His father had emigrated from Ireland as a child and his mother was born in Ontario. Robert had at least one brother and five sisters: William, Matilda, Eliza, Kate, Alice… Read More »

Piddock, Arthur William

Sent to Canada as a British Home Child, Private Arthur William Piddock returned to England to serve overseas during WW1. Sustaining a severe wounding to the spine causing temporary paraplegia, he recovered, returned to Canada, and lived to the age of 96. Arthur William Piddock was born on 22 May 1885 in the Chesterton district… Read More »

Hutchinson, Thomas

Although Thomas Hutchinson gave his date of birth on his attestation papers as 18 August 1884 in Rosedale Abbey, Yorkshire, England, his birth was registered during the third quarter of 1883. His mother was Emma Hutchinson, born in 1866 in Rosedale Abbey, and had been working as a servant for the Read family in Muscoates… Read More »