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

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Poirier, Joseph Alfred Cyprion

Joseph Alfred Cyprien (Joe) Poirier was born on 18 March 1889, birth registered in the RM of Cartier, Manitoba. His parents, Alfred Alphonse (Frederick/Fred) Poirier and Marie Helene Bernadette Brulé were both from Quebec. The family farmed in southeastern Manitoba, with Joe in later life giving his place of birth as St Agathe. For the… Read More »

Derry, Alphonse

Private Alphonse Derry (Dery) was 36 years old and a widower when he enlisted in September 1915. He was killed in action a year later at the Battle of the Somme. Alphonse was the youngest son of Norbert Déry and his first wife Jane Rancourt. Norbert and Jane (also known as Jeanne) were from Saint-Stanislas,… Read More »

Francis, John McKechnie

The Battle of the Somme was a five-month long offensive that began in July 1916. The Canadian Corps arrived at the Somme in late August and in less than three months they suffered 24,000 casualties. One of the fallen was Private John McKechnie Francis of Kenora, Ontario. John was born on 20 November 1864 in… Read More »

Everard, George William

George William Everard was born Sat. 22 Sept .1894, Bromborough, Cheshire, England.  His father George William Everard was born on Fri. 21 July 1871, Stoneton, Cheshire, England. His mother Mary Ellen Dawber was born in 1868, Liverpool, Wigan, England. They were married summer of 1890, Liverpool, Wigon, England. George’s  Christening date was on Sun. 9… Read More »

Cameron, Edward Noble

Private Edward Noble Cameron enlisted three times: in June 1915, November 1915 and April 1916. He served for three years in Canada and England, returning home in January 1919. Edward was the oldest son of John Cameron and Margaret Ann Hughes of Kenora, Ontario. John and Margaret were married in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora)… Read More »

Hucker, Thomas John Junior

Thomas John Hucker Junior was born on 9 January 1900 in Devon, England to Thomas John Hucker  Senior and Elizabeth Ann Evans.  On the 1901 census the family was living on Exeter Street, North Tawton, Okehampton, Devon, England.  The record shows Thomas J. senior age 27, a wool comber born Okehampton, his wife Elizabeth age… Read More »

Hopkins, William

William Hopkins was born on 29 March 1873 in the coastal community of Portrush in the county of Antrim in Northern Ireland. His parents were John Hopkins and Jane Dougherty (also spelled Doherty) who had married in December of 1867 in Londonderry. Known children born to the family were John (1869), Mary Eliza (1870), Ellen… Read More »

Bryant, Alfred George

Alfred George Bryant was born on 18 September 1895 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father George Paul Bryant was from Ashwell, Hertfordshire in England and had immigrated to Canada around 1887, settling with his parents and siblings Walter and Silas in the Miniota area in Manitoba where they farmed. His mother Mary… Read More »

Menard, Joseph Delphis

Joseph Delphis Menard was likely born on 1 June 1879. The parish register from St Jacques le Mineur in Quebec gave his baptism date as 2 August 1879, the month possibly an error as all other baptisms on the pages were from late May and early June. Both of his parents Joseph Simon Menard and… Read More »

Morley, Frank William

Frank William Morley was born on 26 February 1882 in Huntsville, Ontario. His father Charles Morley was born in Torquay, England but had spent a few years in the Australia gold fields, returning to England before immigrating to North America. At some point he married a Scottish lass, Mary Rennie. The couple’s first born child… Read More »