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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Edward (Ted) Caucutt was born on 22 August 1894 in Rat Portage (now Kenora), Ontario. His parents were Charles J. Caucutt and Ellen Annie Osgood. They were both from England and had married in 1886. Charles worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway – first as a section man, then a trainman and finally a conductor…. Read More »
James Meiklejohn Campbell was born on 29 January 1886 in Dunfermline, Fife in Scotland. His father Henry Campbell was from Busby in Lanarkshire while his mother Margaret Meiklejohn was from Greenock in Renfrewshire. The couple married on 6 June 1873 in Barrhead, Renfrewshire. They gave birth to daughter Janet in 1874 and son Robert in… Read More »
Alfred George Bryant was born on 18 September 1895 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father George Paul Bryant was from Ashwell, Hertfordshire in England and had immigrated to Canada around 1887, settling with his parents and siblings Walter and Silas in the Miniota area in Manitoba where they farmed. His mother Mary… Read More »
Joseph Stewart Woods was born on 21 September 1893 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His parents Russell Woods, originally from Quebec, and Elizabeth Fletcher, born in Ontario, had married in Winnipeg on 29 December 1886. By the 1891 Canada census the Woods family was living in Rat Portage East, Russell’s occupation given as… Read More »
After the war the towns of Kenora and Keewatin held a reception at the Tourist Hotel in recognition of all who served during the war. As published in the 2 April 1919 edition of the Kenora Miner and News, a S Howard appeared on the list of returning veterans. His identity and service could not… Read More »
Private Thomas Petty enlisted in December 1915 and served overseas for more than three years. After the war he lived in England for a year before returning to Canada. Thomas was the son of Thomas Harker Petty and Sarah Pybus of Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, England. Thomas Harker and Sarah were both born in Yorkshire. They were… Read More »
The first born child of the family, John Henry Gardner was born on 28 June 1889 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. His parents William, a bricklayer by trade, and Nina Elizabeth (née Whitehouse), a dressmaker, had married during the first quarter of 1888 in Kidderminster. Other children born to the family were Frederick (1893) and Frank (1898)…. Read More »
Alfred George Banks was born on 11 August 1884 in London, England. His father, Alfred George Banks was a railroad engineer. His mother was Charlotte Elizabeth Fish. Siblings included: Elizabeth (Lilly) who married Ernest Wilson, Harriet Daisy and Philip who died in infancy. Alfred served in the Boer War and then in 1903 emigrated… Read More »
According to his attestation papers, Joseph Bougie was born on 6 September 1894 in Schreiber, Ontario. His parents were Jean Baptiste Bougie and Lea Marie Marcoux who had married on 26 April 1880 in Quebec City. By the 1901 Canada census the family was living in North Bay, Ontario where Jean (John) was working as… Read More »
William Haldane was born on 4 October 1896 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was the second son of William Haldane Sr and Catherine (Kate) Lightfoot who had married on 27 July 1892 in Winnipeg. The couple gave birth to John in 1893 and another son, Clifford in 1898. Sadly, William Sr died in April of 1900,… Read More »
