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

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Norquay, Donald

Donald Norquay was born on 28 November 1886 in Moose Factory, Ontario. His father Sutherland Norquay was from Walls and Flotta in the Orkney Islands while his mother Elizabeth McBean was from Moose Factory, her father also a Scottish immigrant. As was Elizabeth’s father, it is likely that Sutherland immigrated to Canada/Moose Factory as an… Read More »

Caron, Joseph Eugene Peter

Joseph Eugene Peter Caron was born on 18 January 1876 in the St James Ward of downtown Montreal, baptized in the Cathedrale St Jaque le Majeur. His father Onesime Caron, a tinsmith, was from Quebec City while his mother Emelie Benenfant was from Rivière du Loup. The couple had married in October of 1870 in… Read More »

Scarfe, James Talbot

James Talbot Scarfe was born on 1 October 1877 in Leeds, Yorkshire in England. His father George John Scarfe was born in Ireland while his mother Alice Mary Talbot was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in England. The couple married on 19 October 1876 in Trinity Church in Marylebone, London. George and his father James before… Read More »

McHenry, Samuel Fulton

According to his attestation papers, Samuel Fulton McHenry was born on 23 February 1872 in Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland. His parents were Hugh and Elizabeth (née Fulton) McHenry. Samuel’s father was a tailor and over the years Samuel and his siblings worked in the tailoring/textile industry. His known siblings were his older sister Susan, and younger… Read More »

Hunt, Charles Harold

Private Charles Harold Hunt was 37 years old, married and the father of five children when he enlisted in August 1915. He served in Canada and Great Britain for three and a half years and returned home in March 1919. Charles was born on 25 February 1878 in Stockport, Cheshire, England. His parents were William… Read More »

Gudgeon, Alexander

Alexander Gudgeon was born on 9 January 1882, birth registered during the first quarter at St Saviour Southwark, London. His father Robert Gudgeon was from Northampton, Northamptonshire while his mother Mary Hooton was from Saxilby in Lincolnshire. The couple married in June of 1866 in Lincoln. Over the years Robert’s occupation was listed as brass… Read More »

Stratton, Walter Arthur

Walter Arthur Stratton was born on 24 July 1894, the son of Richard Stratton and Jennie Eyoutt. His birth was registered in the town of Rat Portage (now called Kenora), in northwestern Ontario. Another son, Roy Calvin Joseph, followed in 1896 and a daughter, Ella, was born in the Dryden area in 1900. When the… Read More »

McGimsie, Samuel Charles

Samuel Charles McGimsie was born on 4 August 1887 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Samuel Charles McGimsie, contractor,  was born in Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, the son of Scottish immigrants, and his mother Susan Charlotte George was born in Cobourg, Northumberland. The couple married in 1875 in Cobourg with Charlotte’s brother officiating… Read More »

Ackerman, Cyril Douglas

Staff Sergeant Cyril Douglas Ackerman was born in London, England and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1907, when he was nine years old. He enlisted at the age of 19 and served with the Canadian Army Service Corps in Winnipeg and Ottawa. Cyril was the son of Ella Lilian Cahill Stuart and George… Read More »

Parrott, Cecil Leroi

Cecil Leroi (Roy) Parrott was born on 4 February 1893 in Oxbow, the Territories (now Saskatchewan). His father Robert James Parrott, the son of Irish immigrants, was from Bathurst, New Brunswick while his mother Naomi Caroline Sproule was from the Brock, Ontario area. The couple had married in 1887 in Cornwallis, Manitoba where Robert’s brother… Read More »