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

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Hagen, Harold Linton

Harold Linton Hagen was born on 3 March 1896 in Thessalon, Ontario. His father George Sanderson Hagen was from Ashfield Township and had married his first wife Mary Jane Fitzgerald in Thessalon in 1888. George and Mary Jane gave birth to three children, Pearl (1890), Elizabeth Frances (1891-1891), and Raymond (1893). Mary Jane died in… Read More »

Lough, Russell Emerson

According to his attestation papers, Russell Emerson Lough was born on 12 February 1895 in Buckingham, Quebec. His parents John Robert and Helen (Nellie) (née Storey) Lough had married on 27 November 1889 in Buckingham although neither were of French Canadian descent. It appears that their first child, George Garfield, born in 1891, died less… Read More »

Greening, William John

William John Greening was born on 4 November 1887 in Mortlake, Surrey in England. His father John Greening was from Mortlake while his mother Rose Collins was from nearby Kingston Upon Thames. The couple married during the first quarter of 1887 in the registration district of Richmond in Surrey. At the time of the 1891… Read More »

Scott, Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross Scott was the youngest son of William Walter Scott and Laura Felicia Anley of Kenora, Ontario. William was from Berwick, Finch Township, Ontario and Laura was born in Trenton, Nova Scotia. They were married in Winnipeg in 1891 and they settled in Norman/Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), where William worked in the lumber… Read More »

Huggins, Cyril Clifford

Cyril Clifford Huggins was born on 25 December 1893 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. Both of his parents, William Caro Huggins and Eliza Harriet Betsworth, were born in England. William immigrated to Canada as a young child with his parents and siblings and along with his brother James first came to the Lake… Read More »

MacKay, John Hector

John Hector MacKay was born on 8 August 1880 in Kirkdale, Liverpool, England. His father John Hector MacKay was from Scotland and by the time of the 1871 census was boarding in the Samuel and Ann (née Watt) Neish household in Everton, Liverpool, occupation listed as engine driver. On 16 October 1975 in Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool,… Read More »

Hamilton, James

James (Jim) Hamilton was born on 25 April 1901 in the parish of Cambusnethan in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Both of his parents, Alexander Hamilton and Mary Lindsay, were from the area, marrying on 24 June 1892 in Cambusnethan. At the time of the marriage Alexander Sr’s occupation was given as sawmill engine keeper. Jim had… Read More »

Ward, Lloyd Wilson

Lloyd Wilson Ward was born on 10 March 1898 in Stanley, York, New Brunswick. His parents James Ward and Margaret Ellen (Nellie) Clarkson married on 13 March 1901 in the Registration District of York, likely in Williamsburg. The family farmed in the Stanley area known as the Ward Settlement. Another child, daughter Sarah, was born… Read More »

MacPherson, Duncan Rupert

Private Duncan Rupert MacPherson enlisted in August 1915 and served with the 52nd Battalion in Belgium and France. He suffered shell shock at the Somme in September 1916 and he spent the rest of the war in Great Britain. The war started in August 1914 and by December a third Canadian overseas contingent was being… Read More »

Leach, John Owen

Captain John Owen Leach enlisted with the first Canadian contingent in September 1914 and three months later he was commissioned as an officer in the British army. He went on to serve with the Royal Flyings Corps and the Royal Air Force and earned both the Military Cross and the Air Force Cross. John was… Read More »