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

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Kendall, Reuben Duffett

Reuben Duffett Kendall was born on  28  August 1895 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), in northwestern Ontario. His father William Glanfield Kendall was from Rettendon, Essex, England. At age twenty-three William had immigrated to Canada, first living in Stratford, Ontario where he worked for the Grand Trunk Railway before moving to Winnipeg in 1882… Read More »

Cherry, John Joseph Roland

John Joseph Cherry was born on 19 August 1890 in Keewatin, Ontario. His parents were Thomas Joseph Cherry and Caroline Hawkin. Siblings included Cecil, Agnes, Marion and Norah. John’s father was born in Ireland and immigrated to Canada 1871. He was a Reeve for Keewatin in 1907 and 1908 becoming Keewatin’s first Mayor in 1909… Read More »

Gloyn, Bertram

Sapper Bertram Arthur Gloyn enlisted in July 1916 and served in France with the 107th Pioneer Battalion. He returned to Canada in December 1918. Bertram was the youngest of five sons of Robert Elson Gloyn and Emma Jane Nancollis of Wandsworth, London, England. Robert and Emma were both born in Stoke Damerel, Devonport, which is… Read More »

Fleming, Thomas Alexander

Although he gave a birth date of 4 February 1896 on his attestation papers, and his gravemarker  has a birth year of 1898, a birth registration for Thomas Alexander  Fleming, in Londonderry, Ireland, gives the date as 5 February 1895.  His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Sarah (Wilkinson) Fleming. His siblings were William John (1889-1975),… Read More »

McFadden, Daniel Joseph

Daniel Joseph McFadden was born on 1 July 1878 In Kilsyth, Grey, Ontario, a small community on the outskirts of Owen Sound. His father John McFadden, wagon maker, was born in Ireland while his mother Mary Catherine McClarty was from the area. Daniel had two older sisters, Mary Ann and Catherine, and two younger sisters,… Read More »

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 »

McRae, Kenneth Norman

Gunner Kenneth Norman McRae, MM, was a law student when he enlisted in the Canadian Field Artillery in November 1915. He was killed by an artillery shell in September 1918, during the Hundred Days Offensive. According to his attestation Kenneth was born 23 August 1893 in Bayfield, Wisconsin. In the 1901 census of Canada he’s… Read More »

Shouldice, Joseph

Joseph Erwin Shouldice was born on 28  April 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Joseph Shouldice was from the Gatineau River/Wakefield area of Quebec and had come west to Winnipeg in 1877 to work on CPR construction. His mother Christina Sutherland was from West River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. The couple… Read More »

Preece, Alfred

Private Alfred Preece was born on 16 October 1894 in Newdale, Manitoba. His birth name was Abraham Alphonse Preece and his parents were Thomas William Preece and Mary Jane Threadkill. Thomas was born in England and immigrated to Canada as a child. Mary was born in Ontario and both of her parents were from England…. Read More »

Moran, Nicholas

Nicholas Moran was born on 30 September 1870 in Cleristown, County Wexford, Ireland where the family farmed, date confirmed by his baptism record. His parents Matthew Moran and Bridget Codd married on 27 June 1867 in the District of Wexford. Known children born to the couple were Mary (1868), Anty (1869-1873), Nicholas, Robert (1872), Matthew… Read More »