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

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Hudec, Andrew

The son of Miclas and Julia (née Durta) Hudec, Andrew Hudec was born on 9 June 1900 in Hornykamenec, Nitoa in Czechoslovakia and served during WW1, details unknown. He immigrated to Canada in 1927, settling in Kenora, Ontario where he found work with the Ontario Minnesota Pulp and Paper Company. On 2 September 1933, in… Read More »

Wilding, Alfred John

Lance Sergeant Alfred John Wilding enlisted in February 1916 and served overseas for three years. He was wounded twice but he survived the war and returned to Canada in June 1919. Alfred was born on 3 February 1890 in Stagsden, Bedfordshire, England. His parents were Harry Wilding, a farm worker, and Jane Elizabeth Hobbs. Harry… Read More »

Johns, Frederick Thomas

Frederick Thomas Johns was born on 8 September 1878 in Barna, Galway, Ireland. He was the son of William Johns and Ellen Glanville and had at least three brothers, Samuel, John, and Edward, and four sisters Ellen, Elizabeth, Winnie, and Rose. Frederick enlisted with the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles in Dublin on 16 May… Read More »

Ramsay, Andrew

Private Andrew Ramsay enlisted in November 1916 and served in France for a year with the Canadian Forestry Corps. He returned to Canada in May 1919. Andrew was born on 5 May 1889 in the town of Rat Portage, Ontario. His parents, Andrew Ramsay Sr. and Janet Closs, were both born in Scotland. They were… Read More »

Shaw, Stanley Richard

Stanley Richard Shaw was born on 9 November 1896 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His parents William Shaw and Harriett Jane Swan were both from England, marrying on 14 May 1883 in Wallasey, Cheshire. The couple gave birth to two children in Wallasey, son William Beresford in 1885 and daughter Beatrice… Read More »

Dalziel, John Thomas

Acting Sergeant John Thomas Dalziel was the only son of John Law Dalziel and Mary Agnes Hunter of Kenora, Ontario. John Law was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland and immigrated to Canada as a young man. He lived briefly in Winnipeg, Manitoba before settling in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora). Mary was born in Ayrshire, Scotland… Read More »

Hutchinson, Thomas

Although Thomas Hutchinson gave his date of birth on his attestation papers as 18 August 1884 in Rosedale Abbey, Yorkshire, England, his birth was registered during the third quarter of 1883. His mother was Emma Hutchinson, born in 1866 in Rosedale Abbey, and had been working as a servant for the Read family in Muscoates… Read More »

Veitch, Robert

The first born child of James and Agnes (née Kirkpatrick) Veitch, Robert (Bob) Veitch was born on 10 March 1895 in West Linton, Peeblesshire, Scotland. Also born in West Linton, his father was a stone mason by trade. His mother was from Kirkbean, Dumphriesshire. Other children born to the family were May Elizabeth (1900) and… Read More »

Basso, Pietro

Pietro (Peter) Basso was born on 15 February 1885 in Italy. He was educated there and served as a private with the Italian army in the Allied Forces during WW1. In 1920, he and his wife, Dosolina (b. 1894 in Azzano, Italy), had a daughter, Ada Marie. In May of 1921 Pietro immigrated to Canada… Read More »

Billedeau, Jerome

Born in Keewatin, Ontario on the 20 November 1899, Jerome William was the son of Hormidas Bilodeau/Billedeau (b Beauharnois St Clement, Quebec) and Sarah Pelletier/Pelchie (b Aroostook Junction, Victoria, New Brunswick) who married on 5 November 1893 in Keewatin. Roman Catholic in origin, the Billedeau family was large. Jerome’s siblings were Addie May, Marie Josephine… Read More »