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

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Dodman, Walter Severn

Walter Severn Dodman was born on 15 March 1899 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father Arthur Edward Dodman was from Stamford, Lincolnshire in England, immigrating to Canada in 1894 and arriving in Quebec aboard the Lake Ontario on 1 May. His mother Mary Thorpe was also from England, immigrating around 1891-92. The couple married on 22… Read More »

Cusson, Philibert Joseph

Philibert Joseph Cusson was born on 29 January 1899 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Joseph Edmond Cusson was from L’Assomption, Quebec while his mother Marguerite Chamberland was from Nashua, New Hampshire. Joseph and Marguerite married on 24 October 1893 in St Boniface, Manitoba. They gave birth to two children, Joseph Alexandre… Read More »

Ward, Lloyd Wilson

Lloyd Wilson Ward was born on 10 March 1898 in Stanley, York, New Brunswick. His parents James Ward and Margaret Ellen (Nellie) Clarkson married on 13 March 1901 in the Registration District of York, likely in Williamsburg. The family farmed in the Stanley area known as the Ward Settlement. Another child, daughter Sarah, was born… Read More »

Sinclair, Benjamin Elton

Kenora’s David George Sinclair and his wife Eliza Ann Bock had four sons that served in WW1 – Leslie Foster John (born 1887), Levi Wilmot (born 1893), Roy Frederick (born 1895) and Benjamin Elton (born 1899).  The family arrived in Rat Portage (Kenora) in 1903 and settled north of town in the rural area of… Read More »

Jones, Andrew

Andrew Jones was born in Dailly, Ayrshire, Scotland.   His parents were Andrew (Sr) Jones and Janet Anderson Gibson.   His father was a coal miner in Scotland.   Andrew was the oldest of at least 3 children; his siblings being Elizabeth and Rosina. The family was living in Scotland according to the census taken… Read More »

McClellan, Thomas

Sergeant Thomas McClellan joined the Canadian Army Service Corps in February 1917 and served in France for more than two years, most of that time with a Mechanical Transport Company. He returned to Canada in October 1919. Thomas was the oldest child and only son of James McClellan and Isabella Shippen of Whitehaven, Cumberland, England…. Read More »

Campbell, James Meiklejohn

James Meiklejohn Campbell was born on 29 January 1886 in Dunfermline, Fife in Scotland. His father Henry Campbell was from Busby in Lanarkshire while his mother Margaret Meiklejohn was from Greenock in Renfrewshire. The couple married on 6 June 1873 in Barrhead, Renfrewshire. They gave birth to daughter Janet in 1874 and son Robert in… Read More »

Newell, Edwin Robert

Edwin Robert (Ted) Newell was born on 21 October 1888 in Keewatin, Ontario, date and place confirmed by his Ontario birth record. His father Edwin Newell was from England while his mother Jane Donnelly was from Ontario. It appears that the couple first lived in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba before moving to northwestern Ontario. The… Read More »

Dusang, Hilliard Rusteed

Private Hilliard Rusteed Dusang was the first Kenora lad to join the 94th Battalion, signing up at age 18. He arrived in France in September 1916 and he was killed at the Battle of Vimy Ridge seven months later. Hilliard was the son of Albert James Dusang and Caroline Laura Gill. Albert and Caroline were… Read More »

Clarke, Robert Lloyd

Robert Lloyd Clarke was born on 9 October 1895 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father John Ernest Clarke was born in Derbyshire in England but grew up in Wales as his family had moved there a couple of years after his birth. By the 1881 Wales census for Festiniog, Merionethshire, John was… Read More »