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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Private Alfred Henry Lavoie enlisted in September 1915 at age 20 and served in France with the Canadian Forestry Corps. Alfred was the youngest son of Wilfred Lavoie and Mary Ann McKeon of Kenora, Ontario. Mary Ann’s family emigrated from Scotland when she was a child and by 1881 they were living in Rat Portage… Read More »
Acting Sergeant Adam Archibald Forbes enlisted with a railway unit in January 1917 and served overseas for two years. In the last months of the war he trained as a potential Cadet Pilot with the Royal Air Force. Adam was the son of Thomas Chisholm Forbes and Christina Kincaid of Rathwell, Manitoba. Thomas and Christina… Read More »
Stanley Richard Shaw was born on 9 November 1896 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His parents William Shaw and Harriett Jane Swan were both from England, marrying on 14 May 1883 in Wallasey, Cheshire. The couple gave birth to two children in Wallasey, son William Beresford in 1885 and daughter Beatrice… Read More »
Alexander (Sandy) Wilson Fisher was born on 28 April 1898 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. His parents were William Fisher and Elizabeth Armour. Coming from a large family his siblings included: John (b. 1878), William (b. 1882), Charles (b. 1883), Mary (b. 1886), James (b. 1890), Janet (b. 1894), Elizabeth (b. 1896), David (1899-1899), Isobel (b…. Read More »
Lance Corporal Stewart Henry Lohman enlisted in December 1914 and served with the 52nd Battalion in France and Belgium. He was wounded at the Somme in October 1916 and invalided to Canada the following spring. Stewart was born on 10 May 1892 in San Francisco, California. His parents were John Benjamin Lohman and Susan Burgess… Read More »
John Bertram (Bert) Fenelon was born on 11 April 1893 in Newcastle, New Brunswick, date confirmed by his New Brunswick birth registration. His father John Fenelon was from Newfoundland while his mother Sara Casey was from New Brunswick, both born to Irish immigrants. After their marriage the family settled in Newcastle where John Sr farmed… Read More »
According to his Ontario death record, George Chapman was born about 1876 in Edinburgh, Scotland. It suggested that he immigrated to Canada around 1901 and came to Kenora in August-September of 1919. He died on 7 February 1921 in the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Kenora and was interred in the Lake of the Woods Cemetery… Read More »
Wallace McDonald was born on 30 August 1887 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. Both of his parents, James McDonald and Margaret Connell, were from Canada but likely married in 1882 in the States. Their first child, daughter Mabel, was born in 1884 in Jamestown, North Dakota. From there the family moved… Read More »
John (Jan) Nycz was born on 21 March 1893 in Poland. While in Poland he married Anna Juzefczyk. Known children born to the couple were Mary, Helen, Josephina, Jennie, John and Nietek. According to his obituary, John served during WW1. He immigrated to Canada in 1929, settling in Kenora where he found work with the… Read More »
Norman Wray Snider was born on 30 July 1898 in Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario. His parents were merchant John Henry Snider and Mary Ellen Dulmadge. Siblings included Florence May (1890-1976), Pearl (1892- ?), Albert (1895-1898) and Fern(1905-1990). Norman was attending the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto when he enlisted with the Canadian… Read More »
