These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Corporal Frederick Helge Nohlgren was born on 17 March 1894 in Texas. His parents, Axel Nohlgren and Sophia Larson, had both emigrated from Sweden. When he was still a baby they moved to Canada and settled in North Norfolk, Manitoba. Seven more children were born there: Nellie, Axel, Olga, Anna, Oscar, Edith and Nelson. Anna… Read More »
Corporal Harold Douglas Mack enlisted in Winnipeg in April 1915 and served in France with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles. He was wounded in August 1918 and returned to Canada five months later. Harold was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on 13 August 1896. His parents, Edward James Mack and Kathleen Elizabeth Haseltine, were both… Read More »
Born 30 November 1877, William Anderson McKie was the second child of nine born to William McKie and Agnes Hill of Girvan, Scotland. His parents were married in December 1875 in Girvan, Ayrshire, a coastal village in southwestern Scotland. He had an older brother, James. William’s younger siblings were Samuel, Mary, John, Alexander, David, Elizabeth… Read More »
Charles Arthur Kelpin was born on 24 November 1895 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. His father Charles Patrick Kelpin was from Ste Anne de Stukely, Quebec while his mother Marie Louise Brault was from Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The couple had married on 12 June 1893 in Lowell where Charles was working as a furniture dealer. The… Read More »
Harold Griersley Lovatt was born on 25 July 1896 in Collingwood, Ontario. His father Frederick Charles Lovatt, a carpenter, was from England and had immigrated to Canada with his family as a young child, settling in the Meaford, Ontario area. His mother Mary Elizabeth Bingham grew up in the Whitchurch, York, Ontario area. The couple… Read More »
By most accounts Daniel Francis McEachern was born on 27 April 1885 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario although a birth record was not found. His father John McEachern was from Scotland while his mother Margaret McLean was from Nova Scotia. According to a family tree the couple married on 29 August 1869 in… Read More »
Private John Henry McDonald enlisted in Kenora, Ontario in February 1916 and he was wounded at the Battle of the Somme eight months later. He spent the rest of the war in England and returned to Canada in March 1919. John was the son of Donald John McDonald and Julia Ann Vankoughnett of the Township… Read More »
Lieutenant Ivan Clark Maharg was a college student living in Brandon, Manitoba when he enlisted in the spring of 1916. He was killed in action in France on 29 September 1918, six weeks before the Armistice, while serving with the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles. Ivan was born on 16 March 1897 in Teeswater, Bruce County,… Read More »
William John Walker was born on 30 June 1886, the son of Joseph and Mary Walker of Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, Ireland. He had a younger brother Edward, born about 1890. William’s father was listed as a gardner in the 1901 Ireland census, the family living in Corcreedy, Fivemiletown. Before immigration William had been working as… Read More »
Hedley William Rendell was born on 4 April 1892 in Islington, London, England. He was the first born child of Ernest Alfred and Annie Sophia (née Pavitt) Rendell who were both from Yeovil in Somerset where they had married in 1891. Ernest was a schoolmaster, enabling the family to employ a servant. Other known children… Read More »