You can also view an Alphabetical List
These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
Search by name, or filter the search results using the list of options below.
Back row: Roy, father Carl holding Edith, Amanda’s sister Hilda Front row: Gus, Angus, mother Amanda holding Ture Carl Ragner (Roy) Carlson was born on 6 August 1890 in TimrГҐ, Västernorrland, Sweden. His father Carl Carlson was from NordingrГҐ in Västernorrland while his mother Sofia Amanda Westmark was from Pitea in Norbotton. The couple had… Read More »
John Dougal McDonald was born on 19 August 1890 near Dunvegan in the township of Kenyon in north Glengarry County where the family farmed. His parents were Dougal McDonald and Joanna Buchanan who had married in 1885 in Kenyon. John had two older sisters, Annie Mary (1886-1967) and Catherine Isabel (1888-1919). Sadly Joanna died ten… Read More »
Adam Martin was born on 4 August 1886 in Partick, Lanarkshire in Scotland. His father Adam Martin, an engine turner journeyman, was from Govan while his mother Catherine Boyd was from Greenock, both in Scotland. The couple had married on 31 December 1882 in the Plantation District of Govan. Adam Sr had previously been involved… Read More »
John Clifford Hargrave was born on 10 July 1898 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father John Gordon Hargrave was from Perth, Ontario, and had come to the Red River Settlement with his family around 1873 where his father founded Hargrave and Company a few years later. First a retail and wholesale grocery and coal and wood… Read More »
John Beaton was born on 11 March 1888 in Keewatin, Ontario, a small town in northwestern Ontario that is now amalgamated with Kenora. His father John Beaton, born in 1858, was from Braes of Dunvornie, Urquhart, Ross shire in Scotland while his mother Catherine Lawless Peach, born in 1863, was from the registration district of… Read More »
Paul Burman Gibben was born on 22 July 1898 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father William Gibben was from Barnaby Moor while his mother Sarah Eleanor Burman was from Middlesborough, both in Yorkshire, England. The couple married during the last quarter of 1890 in the registration district of Middlesborough. At the time of the 1891 England… Read More »
Lieutenant Ernest John Clarke served in the militia before the war then enlisted in July 1916 and went to France with the 50th Battalion. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He served again in the Second World War with the Veterans Guard of Canada. Ernest was the son of James Herbert Clarke and Rose… Read More »
Lance Sergeant Frank Gordon Macaulay joined the 16th Battalion in France in June 1915 and a year later he was killed during the Battle of Mount Sorrel. The Germans used massive amounts of artillery and blew up underground mines in their attempt to capture and hold Mount Sorrel and the surrounding area. The two-week battle… Read More »
Gilbert Earl McConnell was born on 16 October 1898 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario, confirmed by his Ontario birth record. His parents Robert McConnell and Eliza Jane Copeland, although from Quebec, were both of Irish origin. They married on 14 May 1890 in Kazabazua, La-Vallee-de-la Gatineau in Quebec. The 1891 census found the… Read More »
