Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Elliott, William Arthur

William Arthur Elliott was born on 27 March 1890 in Orillia, Ontario. His parents were Thomas Huntley Elliott and Edith Brundrett, the couple marrying on 29 September 1886 in Peterborough, Ontario. At the time of the marriage Thomas was working as a boat builder. William had an older sister Marion Louise who was born in… Read More »

Pearson, Samuel

Samuel Pearson’s name appeared in the 24 June 1916 edition of the Kenora Miner and News for enlisting with the 221st Battalion. His identity and service could not be confirmed.  

Conn, Robert William

Captain Robert William Conn was commissioned as an officer in the Canadian Army Dental Corps in August 1916. He served in Great Britain for sixteen months and was invalided home to Canada in September 1918. Robert William was born on 17 November 1881 in Stonewall, Manitoba. He was the oldest of at least ten children… Read More »

Fraser, Claude Alexander

Pilot Cadet Claude Alexander Fraser joined the Royal Air Force in the spring of 1918, at age 18. He trained in the Toronto area for about seven months and he was discharged a few weeks after the Armistice. Claude was the son of Andrew Fraser and Frances Elizabeth Fennell of Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew was… Read More »

LaBelle, Daniel Leon

Daniel Leon LaBelle was born on 21 February 1880 in the township of Chichester, Pontiac, Quebec. For reasons unknown he was baptized in the nearby township of Sheenboro with the surname of Micheau, parents given as Michael Micheau, farmer, and Mary Brennan. His father usually went by the name of Michael Labelle, the name given… Read More »

Morley, Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen Morley was born on 30 April 1899 in Virden, Manitoba. His parents Samuel Edward Morley and Mary Jane Williams, both of their families farming in nearby Watt, had married in Bracebridge, Ontario on 16 August 1881. The couple were to farm in Watt where children Robert Edward (1882), Catherine Ann (1884), Hannah Jane… Read More »

Logan, Daniel

According to his attestation papers that he signed on 22 February 1916 in Kenora, Ontario, Daniel Logan was born on 23 August 1874 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. A birth registration was not found nor was an age appropriate immigration/passenger list record of his coming to Canada. He gave his son Edward with the 10th… Read More »

Clark, William Hamilton Hutchins

Lieutenant William Hamilton Hutchins Clark signed up with the 44th Battalion in February 1915 and served for overseas for almost four years. He returned to Canada in July 1919 with a war bride. William was the son of Phineas Hutchins Clark and Triphena Mary Harper of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Phineas and Mary were married in 1868… Read More »

Richardson, Ford McQuinn

Ford McQuinn Richardson was born on 5 November 1897 in Alexander, a small community in southwestern Manitoba. His father Joseph Milo Richardson was from Fredericksburg, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario while his mother Annie Eliza Sager was from nearby Tyendinaga, Prince Edward County. Both were residing in Sophiasburg, a community about 35 kilometres south of… Read More »

Wismer, Ira Franklin

Ira Franklin (Pat) Wismer was born on 23 April 1898 in the RM of Glenwood (Souris), Manitoba. His father Norman Wismer and mother Deborah Mezina Clark were from Warwick Township, Lambton, Ontario. At some point after their marriage the couple headed west, first found in Treherne, RM of Norfolk, in Manitoba followed by a few… Read More »