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Burlington, George Franklin (Frank)

Although a birth record was not found, according to a family tree on ancestry.ca, George Franklin Thomas (Frank) Burlington was born on 9 November 1889 in Minnedosa, Manitoba. His father John Charles Burlington, a carpenter, was from Chicago, Illinois while his mother Anne Mary Powell was from Ontario. The couple gave birth to their first… Read More »

MacDonald, Herbert Robertson

Major Herbert Robertson MacDonald enlisted in December 1915 and served with the Canadian Forestry Corps in Great Britain and France. He returned to Canada in March 1919. According to his service record and other documents, Herbert was born on 28 July 1880 in Martintown, Glengarry County, Ontario. His mother, Katherine Janet MacDonald (nee Robertson), was… Read More »

Cusson, Philibert Joseph

Philibert Joseph Cusson was born on 29 January 1899 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Joseph Edmond Cusson was from L’Assomption, Quebec while his mother Marguerite Chamberland was from Nashua, New Hampshire. Joseph and Marguerite married on 24 October 1893 in St Boniface, Manitoba. They gave birth to two children, Joseph Alexandre… Read More »

Serre, Joseph Albert

Joseph Albert Serre was born on 4 May 1898 in Chapleau, Ontario.  His father Telesphore was from the Ottawa area while his mother Clarinda Chartrand was from Quebec. The couple married in 1892 in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario. Before the birth of their first child Trefle Rodolphe in 1894 they had moved to Chapleau, Ontario where… Read More »

Ramsay, Alexander Kelly

Alexander Kelly Ramsay was born on 1 September 1894 in Maybole, Ayrshire in Scotland. His father James Ramsay, a shoemaker, was from Kirkmichael, Ayr, while his mother Margaret Kelly was from Maybole where the couple had married on 14 June 1889. Alex had two older siblings, Joanna (1890) and William (1892) and younger sisters Agnes… Read More »

Mansfield, Paul Burrill

Paul Burrill Mansfield was the younger son of Arthur Holmes Mansfield and Mabel Ida Smart. Mabel was born in Maine and Arthur in Vermont. They were married in 1893 and their first child, Charles Smart, was born in Brownville Junction, Maine in 1894. Paul followed on 1 June 1895, also in Brownville Junction. There were… Read More »

Tetroe, Joseph James

Birth date and location:    Joseph James Tetroe was born in Tyndall, Manitoba, on July 18, 1886.  His parents were Joseph  (born about 1845, U.S.A.) and Josephine Tetroe (born in the U.S.A. December 28, 1859). Early life:    Throughout the  1901, 1906 and 1911  Canadian Census  Lists, Joseph, Josephine and their children were living  in… Read More »

Bateson, George Theodore

Private George Theodore Bateson was the son of John Hope Bateson and Agnes Victoria (nee Bateson) of Ely, St. Louis County, Minnesota. John and Agnes were of Scottish and Irish ancestry and they were both born in Victoria County, Ontario. They were married in 1882 in Somerville Township, Victoria County. George was born on 27… Read More »

Goulet, Raymond

Gunner Raymond Goulet enlisted in March 1918 and served for a year with the Canadian Field Artillery, most of that time in England. He returned to Canada in April 1919. Raymond was the son of Albert and Marie Louise Goulet and the grandson of Elzéar Goulet. During the 1860s Elzéar was the mail carrier between… Read More »

Towns, George Andrew

George Andrew Towns was the son of Calvin Towns and Mary Ann Bandy of Kenora, Ontario. Calvin was a blacksmith and farmer and he and Mary Ann were married in 1883 in the town of Combermere, about 100 km west of Ottawa. A son, Sirastin, was born in Combermere in 1884. By 1891 the family… Read More »