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

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Mansfield, Charles Smart

Charles Smart Mansfield was the son of Arthur Holmes Mansfield and Mabel Ida Smart. Mabel was born in Maine and Arthur in Vermont. They were married in 1893 and Charles was born in Brownville Junction, Maine on 21 May 1894. He was followed by a brother and two sisters: Paul Burrill (1895), Pauline (1898) and… Read More »

Benson, Robert John

Robert John (Bobby) Benson was born on 18 May 1894 in Davidson, Saskatchewan. His parents Hans Benedikt Johannesson and Rosa Gudmundsdottir were from Iceland, marrying on 22 July 1876 in Grenadarstadur, Sudur-Thingeyjarsysea. The couple gave birth to two children in Iceland, Egill (George) in 1875 and Vestium (Weston) in 1879. At some point after Weston’s… Read More »

Glenn, Thomas Blake

Private Thomas Blake Glenn, usually known as Blake, was the son of John Thomas Glenn and Emily Brydges. He was born on 10 November 1889 in Petrolia, Lambton County, Ontario. His parents had married in 1878 in nearby Wyoming, Ontario. Blake had two older brothers, John Bertram (1879) and Frederick Aylmer (1887), both born in… Read More »

Duncan, William McKechnie

William McKechnie Duncan was born on 19 December 1897 in West Carron, Larbert, Stirlingshire in Scotland. His father David Duncan, an iron moulder, was from Falkirk while his mother Annie McKechnie was from Edinburgh where the couple married on 10 July 1877. Their first child, daughter Mary, was born in Edinburgh but by the time… Read More »

Campbell, Donald Malcolm

Donald Malcolm Campbell was born on 26 June 1889 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father Malcolm Campbell, hardware merchant and tinsmith, was from the Township of Stanley in Huron County while his mother Margaret McLean was from Lucknow in Huron, a community about 60 kms from Stanley. The couple married on 30 June 1882 in Winnipeg…. Read More »

Adams, Lester Alexander

Lester Alexander Adams and his twin sister Hester Isabel were born on 22 September 1894 in Norman, Ontario, a community now amalgamated with Kenora in northwestern Ontario. Their parents Alexander John Adams and Harriet Christie Farrell were both from Canada but likely married in 1883 in Minnesota, United States. Their first child, daughter Edith Electra… Read More »

Walker, Hugh Charles

Hugh Charles Walker was born on 27 September 1897 in Carman, Manitoba. His parents were William Walker and Charlotte Brown, both from Ontario. By the time of the birth of their first son William John in 1883, they were living in Carman where William Sr worked as a carpenter. Other children born in Carman were… 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 »

McKenzie, Donald

Donald MacKenzie was born on 13 November 1893 in Upper Bayble, Stornoway, County of Ross, Scotland. His father Alexander MacKenzie and mother Flora MacRae had married 22 January 1884 in Stornoway, Alexander’s occupation listed as fisherman. By the 1901 Scotland census household members were parents Alexander and Flora, and children Angus (16), Isabella (14), Roderick… Read More »

Munro, James Robert

Sergeant James Robert Munro served for 19 years with the British army before immigrating to Canada in 1911. He enlisted again during the First World War and served for almost five years with Canadian cavalry units. James was born on 23 September 1875 in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of George Andrew Munro and Elizabeth Allan…. Read More »