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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Arthur James Foord was born on 16 February 1894 in Hastings, Sussex, England. His parents were William and Alice Matilda Foord. Siblings included Winnifred Daisy (b. 1892), William Albert (b. 1897), George Alfred (b. 1902), Alice Ivy (b. 1901) and Eleanor. Arthur attended school in Hastings until the age of 14 when he joined the… Read More »
Although a birth record would be needed to confirm, by most accounts Job Squire was born on 4 February 1880 in Short Heath in the registration district of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire in England. Short Heath is presently a small urban residential area north of the town of Willenhall, nestled in between the urban villages of New… Read More »
(Thomas) Edmund Charles Oldfin was born on 19 June 1891 in Kingston, Ontario. His father John William Oldfin and mother Honoria Nora O’Connor, both from Ontario, had married in 1884 in Kingston. Over the years John worked as a gas fitter/tinsmith/plumber. Children born to the couple were Mary (1885), Catherine (1886), John O’Connor (1888), Edmund,… Read More »
Donald McCulloch was born on 16 August 1894 in the village of Norman, now amalgamated with Kenora, in northwestern Ontario. His father Thomas McCulloch was from Glen Donald, Glengarry, Ontario while his mother Mary Ann Salter was from the Red River Settlement. By the time they gave birth to their first child, son John Alexander… Read More »
George Archambault was born on 16 July 1857 in Ottawa, Ontario. He was the son of Cesaire Archambault and Julie Matté dit Forsier, both from St Roch de l’Achigan in Quebec. The couple married on 10 August 1844 in Ottawa. Children born to the family were Cesaire, Azilda Odile, Hermenegilde, Joseph Emmanuel, Marie Louise Josephine,… Read More »
According to his attestation papers, Ross Fraser Crierie was born on 14 July 1896 in Clayton, New York, USA. Although a birth record was not found, it is likely that he was born in 1897 (BC death record). His father was Benjamin Gillespie Fraser Crierie, born around 1854 in Liverpool, England. In 1875 Benjamin had… Read More »
Rudolph Elmer was born on 29 June 1884 in Tiel, Gelderland, Netherlands. He arrived in the Kenora District around 1908 and worked as a labourer in the employ of Mr. A. Fricker. On 20 November 1915 he enlisted with the 94th Battalion in Kenora. He had one year of service with the #8 Engineers in… Read More »
Douglas Edgar Hook was born on 13 September 1899 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. His parents were Henry (Harry) Hook and Harriet (Hattie) McGinnis. Henry Hook was an affluent business man who controlled real estate and mining claims in the area. He was manager of Burns and Company, a wholesale meat business. His other children… Read More »
Christina Margaret Johnston was born on 3 July 1888 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her parents John Dickinson Johnston and Ellen Brydon married on 6 March 1878 in Guelph Township, Ontario. After giving birth to children Helen and William the family had moved to Winnipeg by 1882. They gave birth to daughter Laura that year followed by… Read More »
Edwin Robert (Ted) Newell was born on 21 October 1888 in Keewatin, Ontario, date and place confirmed by his Ontario birth record. His father Edwin Newell was from England while his mother Jane Donnelly was from Ontario. It appears that the couple first lived in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba before moving to northwestern Ontario. The… Read More »
