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

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Heffren, Arthur

Private Arthur Heffren enlisted in April 1917 and served in Canada for one year, much of that time suffering from illness. He was discharged as medically unfit in April 1918. Arthur was one of twelve children of John Alexander Heffren (Heffern) and Margaret Malinda Clement. Records vary but John was born in either Ontario or… Read More »

Hawkins, Irving Scott Ferguson

Irving Scott Ferguson Hawkins was born on 10 April 1895 in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His parents were Benjamin Hawkins and Janet Corrie. Siblings included: William (1892-1914), John (1897-1986), Benjamin (1899-1975) and Gordon Cochrane Jackson (1920-1977). Irving’s father died in 1901. In May of 1912, his older brother, William, immigrated to Canada and settled in Winnipeg…. Read More »

Harrison, Edmund William

Edmund William Harrison was born on 2 September 1883 in Souris, Manitoba, birth registered in the RM of Glenwood. His father James Morrell Harrison was from Ontario while his mother Annie Phillips was born in Scotland. James was a Methodist minister and like many Methodist ministers of the day was sent west in the early… Read More »

McIntee, Merrit Melton

Birth date and location: Merrit Melton McIntee was arguably one of the oldest living Canadians in recorded history, reaching 106 years of age – just 3 weeks away from his 107th birthday. Merrit was not born in Kenora and did not enlist in Kenora; however, he and his wife lived here for nineteen years, when… Read More »

Marr, William

William Marr was born on 6 April 1885 in Rhynie, Aberdeenshire in Scotland. His father John Marr was from nearby Auchindoir while his mother Isabella Smith was from Rhynie where the couple married on 22 November 1882. Over the years John worked as a general servant and a railway carter. William had an older brother… Read More »

Cardinal, Elphege Louis

Elphege Louis Cardinal was born on 12 April 1898 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His father Louis Cardinal was from Montebello, Quebec and moved to the area around 1894. His mother Evelina Roy was from Point Gatineau, Quebec and had relocated to nearby Keewatin with her parents and siblings sometime before… Read More »

Bateson, George Theodore

Private George Theodore Bateson was the son of John Hope Bateson and Agnes Victoria (nee Bateson) of Ely, St. Louis County, Minnesota. John and Agnes were of Scottish and Irish ancestry and they were both born in Victoria County, Ontario. They were married in 1882 in Somerville Township, Victoria County. George was born on 27… Read More »

Shorthose, Francis Harry

Francis Harry (Frank) Shorthose was born on 17 August 1890 in Winshill, Burton  upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. His father was John Henry Shorthose, brewery labourer and maltster, and his mother was Elizabeth Archer. The couple married in Burton upon Trent in 1880. Known children born to the family were John William (1881-1957), Laura Dinah (1883-1972),… Read More »

Sillers, Clifford McLeod

Clifford McLeod Sillers was born on 11 April 1893 in the RM of Turtle Mountain in southern Manitoba. Both of his parents Donald Sillers and Mary Jennison were from the Township of Hay in Ontario. According to a history book about Killarney, Manitoba, Donald had homesteaded in the area near Holmfield/Killarny in southern Manitoba not… Read More »

Clark, Charles Bruce

Charles Bruce Clark was born on 15 September 1880 in Edmonton, Middlesex, England.  His parents were Charles Clark (a builder) and Isabel Chalmers. He had a least one brother, William, who was born in 1882. According to his obituary, Charles was educated in Dundee, Scotland and immigrated to Canada in 1908. Charles’ mother Isabel had… Read More »