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

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Sigurdson, Oliver Emile (Oley)

Oliver Emile (Oley) Sigurdson was born on 29 October 1894 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His parents Teibur (Tait) Sigurdson and Gudrun (Rooney) Thorsteindottir were both from Iceland, immigration year given as 1888 in various censuses. The couple first lived in Sayreville, New Jersey in the United States where they gave birth to daughter Johanna that year…. Read More »

Morley, Frank William

Frank William Morley was born on 26 February 1882 in Huntsville, Ontario. His father Charles Morley was born in Torquay, England but had spent a few years in the Australia gold fields, returning to England before immigrating to North America. At some point he married a Scottish lass, Mary Rennie. The couple’s first born child… Read More »

Brock, Clifford Wallace

Cadet Pilot Clifford Wallace Brock was the oldest son of Robert Meadows Brock and Agnes McKechnie Francis of Kenora, Ontario. His mother was from a large family in Stirlingshire, Scotland and his father was born and raised in Belfountain, Peel County, Ontario. They were married in 1890 in Belfountain and Clifford was born there on… Read More »

McKelvie, James

James McKelvie was born on 2 September 1896 in Mossend in the registration district of Bothwell in Lanarkshire, Scotland. His parents Duncan McKelvie and Jessie McKean were both born in nearby Muirmadkin. At the time of the 1881 census Duncan was lodging with Jessie’s widowed mother Janet and some of her siblings in Bothwell where… Read More »

Dion, Joseph

Corporal Joseph Dion enlisted in Winnipeg in May 1915, at age 21, and served in France with the 10th Battalion. He was killed in action in April 1917. Joseph was the youngest son of Ferdinand (Frank) Joseph Dion and Emilie Michaud. Ferdinand and Emilie were both born in Quebec. By the early 1880s they were… Read More »

Sansom, Stanley Bertram

Stanley Bertram Sansom was born on 23 February 1895 in Zephyr, Ontario. His father Alfred was from London, England while his mother Elizabeth Ann Foote was from Scott Township in the County of Ontario. Alfred, previously married to Sarah Ann Sutton who died in 1887, had two children from this marriage, Ethel Beatrice (1885-1965) and… Read More »

Marsh, John Daniel

John Daniel Marsh was born on 10 November 1873 in the village of Gwehelog, subdistrict of Usk, district of Pontypool, in Monmouthshire, Wales. He was likely named after his older brother John Daniel who had died earlier that year. His father Joseph Marsh was from Harewood, Herefordshire in England while his mother Sarah Lewis was… Read More »

Markham, Frederick

Private Frederick Markham enlisted in February 1915, at age 19, and served with the 15th Battalion in France and Belgium. He was killed at the Battle of Mount Sorrel in June 1916. Frederick was the youngest son of Philip George Markham and Jane Dowse. Philip and Jane were married in Yorkshire, England in 1875 and… Read More »

Lunan, George Ogilvie

Although he gave his year of birth as 1888 on his attestation papers, George Ogilvie Lunan was born on 15 July 1884 in Tealing, Forfarshire in Scotland (confirmed by birth record). Tealing is about 10 kms north of the city of Dundee in what is now the county of Angus. George’s father Thomas Lunan was… Read More »

Hagen, Harold Linton

Harold Linton Hagen was born on 3 March 1896 in Thessalon, Ontario. His father George Sanderson Hagen was from Ashfield Township and had married his first wife Mary Jane Fitzgerald in Thessalon in 1888. George and Mary Jane gave birth to three children, Pearl (1890), Elizabeth Frances (1891-1891), and Raymond (1893). Mary Jane died in… Read More »