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

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Etter, Roy Clifford

Roy Clifford Etter was born on 30 September 1883 in Westmorland Point (later renamed Aulac), New Brunswick, close to the Nova Scotia border where his family farmed. His father Charles Etter was from New Brunswick while his mother Margaret Ann Miller was from Nova Scotia. Roy had two known older siblings, Herbert (1881-1955), and Lucilla… Read More »

Hayward, Edwin Claridge

Edwin Claridge Hayward was born on 25 September 1893 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. His parents were Alfred Hayward and Emma Jane Dee. Siblings included: Alfred William (b. 1883), George Harold (b. 1884), Laurence Victor (b. 1888), Violet Eliza (b. 1890), Margaret Ellen (b. 1891), Ernest Dee (b. 1893), and Noel Stephen (b. 1896).  Edwin’s father,… Read More »

Adams, Arthur Charles Lewer

Second Lieutenant Arthur Charles Lewer Adams was a law student when he enlisted in Edmonton in February 1916. He served in France with the 46th Battalion then received a commission in the Indian Army. He was sent to India and Afghanistan and returned to Canada in December 1919. Charles was the only son of Reverend… Read More »

Lucas, Samuel John

Samuel John (Jack) Lucas was born on 18 September 1897 in Victoria, British Columbia. His father William Lucas was from Addington County in Ontario while his mother Mary Ellen (Nellie) Bowyer was from Oswestry, Shropshire in England. Nellie had immigrated to Canada in the 1880’s with her parents and siblings, the family settling in Dewdney,… Read More »

Hutchinson, Thomas

Although Thomas Hutchinson gave his date of birth on his attestation papers as 18 August 1884 in Rosedale Abbey, Yorkshire, England, his birth was registered during the third quarter of 1883. His mother was Emma Hutchinson, born in 1866 in Rosedale Abbey, and had been working as a servant for the Read family in Muscoates… Read More »

Grant, Thomas

Born on January 10, 1885 in Ardelach, Nairn in Scotland, Thomas Grant, the son of Charles Grant and Annie Roberts, immigrated from Scotland in 1907 to Kenora, Ontario, Canada. He met Catherine (Kate) Duncan and they were married by license in the town of Kenora on April 11, 1911. Thomas was a flour packer at… Read More »

Caslake, Arthur

According to his attestation papers, Arthur Caslake was born on 7 May 1881 in St Mary’s, Ontario. However it is likely that he was born as Arthur Coupland in 1879, the son of Rachel Coupland. The 1881 Canada census for St Mary’s found Rachel and Arthur living with Rachel’s widowed mother Elizabeth Coupland. In 1884,… Read More »

Lane, Ernest

Private Ernest Lane was born on 31 January 1893 in Walworth, Southwark, London, England. As a child he came into the care of Fegan’s Homes and at age 14 he was sent to Canada as a Home Child. He arrived in Quebec on 24 May 1907 on the Empress of Britain. At that time many… Read More »

Fisher, William

Sapper William Fisher was one of three brothers from Keewatin, Ontario who served in the First World War. He spent more than three years overseas and returned to Canada in March 1919. William was born on 25 January 1882 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. His parents, William Fisher Sr. and Elizabeth Armour, were married in Maybole… Read More »

Bunting, Robert Edmund

Private Robert Edmund Bunting was the youngest son of Robert James Bunting and Alice Agar Fitzgerald. James was born in New Brunswick and Alice in Ontario. They both moved to northwestern Ontario with their families around 1880. They were married in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in 1882 and they had a daughter Violetta in… Read More »