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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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The Hulmes family was from Manchester, Lancashire in England where parents Thomas and Martha (Pennington) had married on 24 March 1883. Thomas was listed as a coal wharfinger (takes custody of and is responsible for goods delivered to the wharf) in the 1891 census and as a coal dealer in later censuses. Children born… Read More »
Emery Gordon McGuffin was born on 22 September 1895 in the Glenella, Manitoba area (birth registered in the RM of Lansdowne). His parents John McGuffin and Ellen Sugden were both from West Nissouri, Middlesex, Ontario as given on their marriage record of 10 April 1888 in nearby Thorndale. Around 1894 John and Ellen moved to… Read More »
Flight Second Lieutenant Wilbur Albert Cory enlisted in April 1916 and served with infantry units for two years before transferring to the Royal Air Force. He trained as a marine fleet observer and returned to Canada in the spring of 1919. Wilbur was the youngest son of Thomas Augustine Cory and Rachel Maude Dunphy of… Read More »
Private Carl Renger enlisted in September 1916 at age 18 and served overseas for two years. He was wounded in France in the last months of the war but he survived and returned to Canada in April 1919. Carl was the only son of Augusta Rabes and her first husband Emil Renger. Carl was born… Read More »
Frederick Joseph Houldsworth was born on 17 January 1901 in the inner city of Hulme in Manchester, Lancashire, England. His parents James Houldsworth, a brick layer, and Mary Florence Easthope married on 14 February 1886 in Hulme. Children born to the couple were Margaret (1886), William Henry (1887), Clara (1889), James Edward (1891-1892), Ellen (1894),… Read More »
Private Louis Herwald Tweedie was born in either Rat Portage or Norman, Ontario on 8 February 1893. He had an older brother Roswell Dawson and two younger sisters, Hazel and Olive, all born in Norman or Rat Portage (now called Kenora). His father, Eusebius Dawson Tweedie, was from Carlton Place, Ontario and his mother, Christina… Read More »
Private Alexander (Alick) McRae enlisted with the 1st Canadian Contingent shortly after the war started and by April 1915 he was in the trenches in Belgium. He was wounded twice in the next three months, the second time seriously, and he died in a hospital in Edinburgh in August 1915. Alick grew up in Brora,… Read More »
With a family of eight children, five of the Montgomery sons were to enlist during the war. The Montgomery family had its roots in Lanark County in Ontario. Oswald Montgomery Sr, the son of a farmer and local justice of the peace, was born in 1857 in the township of Drummond. On 11 June 1884,… Read More »
Private Walter Armstrong enlisted in February 1915 and served overseas with the 27th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion. He was wounded four times, including once by mustard gas. He survived the war and returned to Canada in September 1919 with a war bride. Walter was born on 7 May 1895 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He was… Read More »
Birth, Family and Early Years: Margaret Allison Roy was born May 14, 1879, in Listowel, Perth County, Ontario. She was the only daughter of David Roy, who had been born Scotland, and his wife, Agnes (maiden name Fortune). David and Agnes married in Listowel in 1877 and began their family a year later. James Elgin,… Read More »
