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

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Green, Gustave

Gustave/Gustaf Green was from  Ostersund, Pellatt Township, near Kenora, Ontario. He was born August 19, 1894 in Tännäs, Sweden to John Green and Gertrude (Olson) Green.  His older brothers were Olaf and Axel. After Gustave brothers Oscar, Magnus and Edward and a sister Mary were born. Gertrude also had a daughter, Kristina Ronsberg, from a… Read More »

Glover, Alexander

Private Alexander Glover enlisted in May 1915 and served overseas with the 27th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion. He died of wounds in June 1916, at age 29. Alex (aka Alfred Charles) was born on 6 April 1887 in Rat Portage, Ontario. His birth name was registered as Alfred Charles Glover and his parents were David… Read More »

Reid, William John

William John Reid was born on 2 June 1896 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), in northwestern Ontario, date confirmed by his baptism record. His parents Charles Francis Reid and Mary Elizabeth Savage were both born in New Brunswick, marrying on 1 November 1887 in Newcastle. Son Francis William (Frank) was born in 1888 in… Read More »

Gibson, Ervin

Ervin Gibson  was born as Ervin Hume on 24 October 1888 in Clare County, Michigan in the United States. By 1901 he was adopted by William and Sarah Gibson and living in Keewatin Ontario. Despite his young age, Ervin was working as a cook along side his adoptive parents. By the 1911 Canadian census, Ervin… Read More »

Byington, Napoleon

Napoleon Byington was born on 10  December 1888 in Portland, Leeds, Ontario. His parents were Napoleon and Ruth (Dunn) Byington who had married in 1871 in South Crosby, Leeds and who farmed in the Portland area. Napoleon and Ruth’s children were David (1872), George (1875-1942), Milton (1877), Charlotte (1880-1973), Johanna (1881-1960), Melbourn (1882-1962), and Napoleon…. Read More »

MacArthur, John Angus

John Angus McArthur was born on 5 March 1893 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. Although his parents and siblings all used McArthur as the spelling of their surname, John consistently used MacArthur. His father Daniel McArthur was from Newcastle, Nova Scotia while his mother Florence/Flora McDougall was from Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The couple… Read More »

Tennant, Francis Lambert

Private Francis Lambert Tennant enlisted in December 1914 and served for one year in France and Belgium and two and a half years in Canada and the UK. Francis was the son of George Tennant and Catherine (Kate) Margaret Lambert. He was the second of at least six children: Herbert (1889), Francis (1892), Janet (1894),… Read More »

Dempster, William McLay

William McLay Dempster was one of two sons of William and Margaret Dempster of Stirling, Scotland to enlist from Keewatin during the war. William and his brother Robert had come to Canada in 1912, settling Keewatin where their uncle James and his wife Ann lived. All the men worked for the Lake of the Woods… Read More »

Beaule, Adelard

Private Adelard (Edlora) Alfred Clovis Beaule enlisted in February 1916, five weeks before his 16th birthday. He served in France for three months before being discharged as a minor, and he arrived back in Canada in December 1916. Adelard was the oldest son of Clovis Beaule (Beaulé) and Marie Montgrand Cyr of Redditt, Ontario. He… Read More »