Kenora Great War Project

 

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

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Hansen, Louis (Lewin)

Private Louis (Lewin/Lewis) Hansen was living in northwestern Ontario when he enlisted on 14 April 1916. He signed up in Winnipeg with the 197th (Vikings of Canada) Battalion, which was based in Winnipeg and recruited in western Canada. His address was Keewatin, Ontario, his occupation was ranger and next of kin was his cousin Constance… Read More »

Muggaberg, Thomas

Private Thomas Muggaberg was the youngest son of Julius Muggaberg and Isabella (Elizabeth) Sinclair. Julius was born in Norway and immigrated to Canada (British North America) when he was in his twenties. Isabella was Scottish Métis and born in the Red River Settlement in what is now Manitoba. Julius and Isabella were married in 1860… Read More »

Finlayson, Nichol

Private Nichol Finlayson was sent to France to join the 43rd Battalion in August 1916 and six weeks later he became a prisoner of war. He spent two years in POW camps in France and Germany but he survived and returned to Canada in February 1919. Nichol was the son of Nichol (Sr.) and Elizabeth… Read More »

Gordon, Frank

Frank Gordon was born on 4 January 1898 in Cantraywood, Croy, Inverness-shire in Scotland. He was the son of Peter Gordon, a farm labourer, and Jane Phimister, a sewing maid. Listed as a great nephew, at the time of the 1901 Frank was living with crofters William and Ann Phimister in Cantraywood. For the 1911… Read More »

Millership, George John

George John Millership was born on 21 May 1890 in Causeway Green, Worcestershire, England. His parents George and Selina (née Brown) Millership had married during the third quarter of 1887 in King’s Norton, Worcestershire. By the 1891 census the family was living in nearby Cakemore, Worcestershire where father George was working as an engineer. Household… Read More »

DeGagne, Clovis Adelard

Clovis Adelard DeGagne was born on 11 September 1865 in Laterriere, Chicoutimi in Quebec, date and place confirmed by his baptism record. His father George DeGagne was from L’isle aux Coudres in the St Lawrence River while his mother Marie Illide Dubois was from Becancour. The couple married on 7 January 1851 in Grande Baie,… Read More »

Sleightholm, Cecil Talmage

Cecil Talmage (Bud) Sleightholm was born on 9 July 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His parents Matthew Sleightholm and Agnes Victoria Matthew were both widower/widows when they married on 30 April 1893 in Horning’s Mill in the Township of Melancthon, Dufferin, Ontario. At the time of the marriage Matthew was… Read More »

Fortin, Edgar

Private Edgar Fortin enlisted in April 1916, at age 17, and arrived in France four months later. He was killed in November 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele. Edgar was the youngest son of Charles François Fortin and Emilie Jolicouer of Kenora, Ontario. Charles was from the Gaspé region in eastern Quebec and Emilie was… Read More »

MacVicar, Peter

Peter MacVicar was a well known railway locomotive engineer from Kenora. His family had immigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1894 and purchased a farm near Portage la Prairie. The family included parents Donald (born in 1847) and Susan MacLeod (1848), and their children Neil (1875), George (1877), Peter (1878), Alexander (1880), John (1885), Angus… Read More »

Granath, Gustaf Alexander

Gustaf Alexander Granath was born on 2 May 1875 in Nyköpings Västra, Södermanland, Sweden. He was the first son of Carl Alexander Olsson and Karin Lundgren, his parents having three more sons and one daughter. The Stockholm archives in 1890 showed he moved to Stockholm from Eskistuna at the age of 15 and was living… Read More »