Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Lucas, Charles Joseph Anthony

Charles Joseph Anthony Lucas was born on 28 June 1884 in Hackney, London, England. His father Anthony Lucas was from Cologne, Germany while his mother Jessie Ann Hutchings was from Southampton, Hampshire. The couple had married on 1 July 1866 in St Mary Stratford Bow, Tower Hamlets, London. At the time of the marriage Anthony… Read More »

Insley, Clifford Arthur

Clifford Arthur Insley was born on 22 October 1896 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father John Insley was from Brimington, Derbyshire in England, immigrating to Canada in 1882, while his mother Mary Jane Kittle was from Ontario. The couple married on 8 December 1886 in Port Arthur, giving birth to son John… Read More »

Flett, Hector George

Private Hector George Flett enlisted early in the war and served with the 52nd Battalion for four years in Canada, England, France and Belgium. Hector was the son of Charles (Sr.) and Mary Flett of Kenora, Ontario. Charles came to the Lake of the Woods area from Selkirk, Manitoba and his wife Mary was born… Read More »

Baker, Claude Cleveland

Claude Cleveland Baker was born on 29 June 1881 in Athol, Cumberland in Nova Scotia. His parents Hance Wilson Baker and Angelina Harriet Cleveland had married in 1860 and farmed in the Maccan district in Cumberland. Known children born to the couple were Frank Benton (abt 1862), Florence May (1864), Emma (abt 1865), Harry Wilson… Read More »

Welch, William George

The son of Emily Elizabeth Welch, William George Welch was born on 13 February 1883 in Chardstock, Dorsetshire, England. Emily, daughter of David and Lavinia (née Hodder) Welch, had been born in Bridport, a community about 30 kilometres southeast of Chardstock. The 1891 England census found William living in Chardstock with his widowed grandmother Lavinia,… Read More »

Brock, Earl Meadows

Driver Earl Meadows Brock enlisted at age 18 and served in Canada and the UK for just over a year, most of that time with the Canadian Field Artillery. Earl was the son of Robert Meadows Brock and Agnes McKechnie Francis of Kenora, Ontario. Agnes came from a large family in Stirlingshire, Scotland and she… Read More »

Adams, F

The Lake of the Woods Milling Company in Keewatin, Ontario created a roll of honour after the war, commemorating the fallen as well as all that served. One of the fallen was listed as F Adams.    

Paterson, Norman William

Along with his twin sister Euphemia, Norman William Paterson was born on 11 October 1891 in the village of Norman, later absorbed by Kenora, in northwestern Ontario. His parents John Alexander Paterson and Helen (Nellie) Clark were both from Dundee, Scotland where the couple had married in 1881. After the birth of their first two… Read More »

Parry, William

William Parry was one of many recent immigrants to Canada to answer the call to service in the Great War. Born in Derby, Derbyshire, England on April 3, 1885, to James and Elizabeth Parry, he was one of nine brothers and sisters listed in various census from 1881 to 1901 — Mary (1877), Elizabeth (1878),… Read More »

Clemons, Charles Edward

Charles Edward Clemons was born on 2 February 1894 in the Portland, Leeds area of Ontario where his family farmed. His parents were George Clemons and Fanny Victoria Preston, the couple marrying in 1890 in Singleton, Ontario. Children born to the family were Gertrude (m Henry Primrose) (1892-bef 1964), Charles, Emily (m Edward John Mott)… Read More »