Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Graham, Percy Horace

Percy Horace Graham was born on 6 March 1896 in Lutterworth, Haliburton, Ontario. His parents Richard Allen Graham and Rebecca Jane Bain had married in nearby Kinmount on 4 April 1894. With Richard first working as a labourer, the family was farming in the Lutterworth area by the time of Percy’s birth. The couple gave… Read More »

Delaney, Daniel Percy

Born on 31 August 1891 in North Bay, Ontario, Daniel Percy Delaney was the son of John James and Mary Ellen (née Doyle) Delaney. His siblings were Bridget, Ida, May, John James, Lettie, Queeny, Gertrude, George, and Annie. For the 1891 Canada census the family was living in North Bay, Ontario with the father’s occupation… Read More »

Dion, William

William Dion was born on 12 June 1895 in Rat Portage (now Kenora), Ontario. His parents were Elziard Dion and Clara Brissette who had married in Rat Portage in 1891. Siblings included Edward, Arthur, Rose Delima, Irene, and Phillip. The family was living in Keewatin at the time of the 1901 census and in Redditt… Read More »

Eaton, Margaret

Nursing Sister Margaret Eaton was 50 years old when she joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps in May 1916. She served for four years at several hospitals in Great Britain and Canada. Margaret was the daughter of Wesley Ferguson Eaton and Margaret Markle of East Flamborough Township, Wentworth County, Ontario. She was born on 11… Read More »

Lundmark, Victor Daniel

As per his Swedish birth record, Viktor Daniel Lundmark was born on 13 February 1887 in Aspliden in the parish of Byske in Västerbotten in northern Sweden. However on all other parish records as well as records after immigration, his birth date is always given as the 14th. His parents Anders Lundmark and Erika Carolina… Read More »

Ans, David Robert

Private David Robert Ans enlisted in April 1916 and served for three years in Canada, Great Britain and France. He returned to Canada in March 1919. David was the son of David Ans Sr. and Harriett Brownrigg of Whitemouth, Manitoba. Harriett was born in Yorkshire, England and came to Canada with her family in the… Read More »

Young, Lawrence

Throughout most of the war regulations required soldiers to be at least 19 years old before they served in front line units but thousands of young Canadians enlisted underage and many of them were killed in action or died of wounds. Private Lawrence Young enlisted just before he turned 17 and he died a year… Read More »

McCulloch, Donald

Donald McCulloch was born on 16 August 1894 in the village of Norman, now amalgamated with Kenora, in northwestern Ontario. His father Thomas McCulloch was from Glen Donald, Glengarry, Ontario while his mother Mary Ann Salter was from the Red River Settlement. By the time they gave birth to their first child, son John Alexander… Read More »

Nixon, Harry Jordan

Gunner Harry Jordan Nixon was 23 years old and living in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba when he was called up for service. He spent nine months overseas and returned to Canada in June 1919. Harry was born on 10 April 1895 at Stoney Lake, Dummer Township, Peterborough County, Ontario. His parents were David Nixon and… Read More »

Miller, Jacob William

Private (Acting Corporal) Jacob William Miller was born in Minnesota and living in northwestern Ontario when the war started. He enlisted in Kenora on 26 December 1914, when volunteers were being raised for a third overseas contingent. He was 37 years old at the time and working as a traction engineer. He gave his date… Read More »