These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Joseph Philippe Alexandre Fugere was born on 12 March 1887 in Maria, Quebec, a community on the southeast coast of the Gaspé Peninsula about 70 kilometres from the New Brunswick border. His father Boniface Fugere was a farmer and had married Philippe’s mother Elizabeth Glawser on 12 January 1886 in nearby Carlton. Boniface’s first wife… Read More »
William Coghill was born on 14 April 1899 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents were James Coghill and Annie Elizabeth Ferguson Hosea, the couple marrying on 19 November 1897 in Edinburgh. At the time of the marriage James was working as a stereotyper and Annie as a bookfolder. For the 1901 census the family was living… Read More »
Donald Malcolm Campbell was born on 26 June 1889 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father Malcolm Campbell, hardware merchant and tinsmith, was from the Township of Stanley in Huron County while his mother Margaret McLean was from Lucknow in Huron, a community about 60 kms from Stanley. The couple married on 30 June 1882 in Winnipeg…. Read More »
Company Quarter-Master Sergeant Roderick McRitchie was the son of Donald McRitchie and Anna McLeod of Kenora, Ontario. He was born on 10 October 1868 in Victoria County, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and he had at least six brothers and five sisters. His family moved to Ontario in the 1890s and settled in Rat Portage (later… Read More »
John “Jack” Richardson Millings was born on 27 October 1902 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. His name was registered as Jack Richardson and he was born in the Horton Union Workhouse. His mother, Lily Richardson, was single and her usual residence was 99 Clayton Street in Bradford. She worked as a worsted spinner. At some… Read More »
Born on 27 June 1880 in Round Hill, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Ernest Edward Wagstaff was the eldest child of William and Mary (née Yewdale) Wagstaff who had married 26 August 1979 in Annapolis. His father, born in Nova Scotia, was a carpenter by trade while his mother was from England. When the couple first married… Read More »
Although he gave his year of birth as 1891 on his attestation papers, John Henry (Jack) Kelley was born on 7 November 1890 in Keewatin, Ontario. Located in northwestern Ontario, Keewatin was a thriving community of the time, largely due to the Lake of the Woods Milling Company. Jack was the first born son of… Read More »
Henry Ross Swan was born on 24 May 1865 in Greenock, Renfrewshire in Scotland. His parents Allan Swan and Cecilia Brymner, both from Greenock, married on 31 January 1856. Over the years Allan worked as a writer as well as procurator before the Sheriff’s Court, enabling the family to employ a couple of servants. Henry… Read More »
Gunner George Wilfred Winter enlisted with the Canadian Field Artillery in April 1917. He served for two years in Canada, the UK, France and Belgium. George was the youngest son of John Roantree Winter and Clara Lucinda Tremear. John and Clara were both born in Ontario and they were married in 1891 in Pickering, Ontario… Read More »