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

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McLeod, Alexander

Four months after their success at Vimy Ridge the Canadian Corps fought at the Battle of Hill 70, suffering almost 6,000 casualties in the ten day operation. One of the fallen was Private Alexander McLeod. Alexander was the son of Duncan McLeod and Mary Munro of Keewatin, Ontario. Duncan was born in Stornoway on the… Read More »

McCowan, Archibald Porteous

Archibald Porteous (Archie) McCowan was born on 23 January 1898 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. His father James Archibald McCowan, born in 1850, was from Scarborough, Ontario. He had married his first wife Isabelle Bowes, a Scottish immigrant, in 1875 in Pickering although the couple were to make Scarborough/Toronto their home. Together James and Isabelle… Read More »

Campbell, James Meiklejohn

James Meiklejohn Campbell was born on 29 January 1886 in Dunfermline, Fife in Scotland. His father Henry Campbell was from Busby in Lanarkshire while his mother Margaret Meiklejohn was from Greenock in Renfrewshire. The couple married on 6 June 1873 in Barrhead, Renfrewshire. They gave birth to daughter Janet in 1874 and son Robert in… Read More »

Cassels, George

George Alexander Cassels was among the early volunteers from Keewatin, joining the 98th Regiment in Kenora after the first call to raise group of 40 men for overseas duty was made August 9, 1914. Cassels had been in Keewatin for about five years and was working as a coachman at the Keewatin flour mill when… Read More »

Harvey, Thomas Noel

Thomas Noel Harvey was born on 7 August 1899 at Fern Villas, Beddington Corner in Wallington in the registration district of Croydon, Surrey, England. His father Noel Augustine Harvey, a third generation floorcloth manufacturer, was from nearby Mitcham while his mother Elizabeth Margaret Hazell was from Wallington. The couple married on 13 March 1895 in… Read More »

McDonald, John Daniel

John Daniel McDonald was born on 9 September 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His father Daniel R McDonald was from southwestern Ontario while his mother Isabella Morrison was from Stornoway in Scotland. The couple married on 17 January 1896 in Rat Portage where Daniel was working as a “railroad man”…. Read More »

Winchester, Albert

Albert Winchester was born on 3 August 1883 in Brightling, Sussex, England. His father David Winchester was from Brightling while his mother Ellen Prevett was from Worth in Sussex. The couple had married in early 1878 in Brightling. David was a carpenter by trade and in latter years was listed as an estate carpenter on… Read More »

Tuck, Harry LeDrew

The son of Eli and Mary Anne Tuck, Harry LeDrew Tuck was born on 11 October 1884 in St John’s, Newfoundland. His father Eli’s formal title was Excise Officer in His Majesty’s Custom but was also called a tide-waiter (a customs officer who boards incoming ships at a harbour). Known children born to the family… Read More »

Barley, Bertie Tomlinson

Although he gave his place of birth as Worcester on his attestation papers, Bertie Tomlinson Barley was born on 27 January 1882 in Claines, Worcestershire in England, a small community outside of the city. His father John Barley was from New Brighton, Cheshire while his mother Eleanor (Ellen) Pardoe was from Claines. The couple married… Read More »

Ackabee, Joseph

Joseph Ackabee was an Ojibway and belonged to the Fort William & Eagle Lake Bands in Ontario. He was born on 01 July 1895 at Eagle Lake, Ontario. His parents were Andrew Ackabee and Mary Gilbert (Clear Sky Skaychommskook). He had at least four siblings – Elizabeth, William, Nancy and Michael. Joseph was educated in… Read More »