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

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Nairn, John White

Although he gave his place of birth as Edinburgh in Scotland, John White Nairn was born on 19 April 1892 in nearby Leith. His father John Nairn was from Johnstone, Renfrewshire while his mother Isabella Stuart was from  Deskford, Banffshire. John and Isabella had married in 1887 in Edinburgh. After the marriage the couple lived… Read More »

Cornell, Frederick Charles

Staff Sergeant Frederick Charles Cornell enlisted twice, the first time in January 1915 at age 17. He served in England for a year and he was invalided back to Canada in 1917 due to illness. Frederick was the only son of Joseph and Elizabeth Cornell of Brandon, Manitoba. He and his twin sister Helen Elizabeth… Read More »

Clash, Albert Clayton

Albert Clayton Clash was born on 27 September 1900 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Henry Clash was from England, sent to Canada around 1876 as a British Home Child. By the 1881 census, age given as 13, he was living with the Locke family in Sydenham, Ontario. Albert’s mother Alice Moor… Read More »

Tew, Arthur Francis

Arthur Francis Tew was born on 10 March 1895 in Winona, Ontario. His father William Tew was from Bambury/Hempton, Oxfordshire in England and had immigrated to Canada aboard the Parisian in 1889. His mother Ida Sturch was from North Grimsby, Ontario. The couple married on 23 December 1893 in Hamilton. Settling in Winona, William found… Read More »

Black, Peter

Peter Black was born on 24 June 1878 in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland as confirmed by his birth registration. His father James Black, saddler, was from Coulter in Lanarkshire as was his mother Annie Duncan. The couple had married in Dunbartonshire. Peter was their first born child, followed by Mary Jane (1880), James (1985), Adam (1887),… Read More »

Scoglund, Oscar Emanuel

Oscar Emanuel Skoglund was born on 25 September 1893 in Norman, Ontario, a small community just west of Kenora. It appears that his father August Skoglund was born in Sätterstad, Sunne, Värmland in Sweden, likely immigrating to Canada in 1887. His mother Betty Nilsdotter was from Г–stra Г„mtervik, Sunne, Värmland, immigrating to Canada in 1888…. Read More »

Martin, John Bard

The first born child of Richard and Sarah (née Bardosen) Martin, John Bardosen Martin was born on 25 April 1885 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father, the son of Cornish immigrants, had been born at sea as they were crossing the Atlantic while his mother was from Norway. Richard had first come… Read More »

Beatty, George Thomas

George Thomas Beatty was born on 03 August 1898 in Beamsville, Lincoln, Ontario.   He was the only son of George Alexander Beatty and Jennie R. Box.    He had two older sisters, Rhea and Lena.   A brother, Frank, died at age 18 months. The family was living in Beamsville in 1901 where George… Read More »

Myles, George Hilliard

George Hilliard Myles was born on 23 July 1891 in Midland, Ontario.  His parents were Leith Myles and Mary Isabelle Jane Rathwell.  Siblings included William (1889 – 1956), Mabel (1893 – 1950), Edward (1894 – 1966), Laura (1897 – 1983) and Hugh (1898 – 1904).  The family moved to Rat Portage (Kenora), Ontario in 1898… Read More »

Stocking, Alban Cecil

Stoker Petty Officer Alban Cecil Stocking, usually known as Cecil, was born on 4 January 1884 in Hilborough, Norfolk, England. His parents were Alban William Stocking and Rosa Barham. Alban and Rosa were both born in Norfolk and they were married in 1882. They had at least eight children: Alban Cecil, Emma Clara, Charles William,… Read More »