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Herbert Alexander Dalmer was born on 16 January 1899 in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Lancashire, England. His parents Ernest Alexander Dalmer, a gas fitter, and Emma Hester Shaw were both from Liverpool, marrying on 4 September 1892 in Toxeth, Liverpool. Children born to the couple in West Derby were Gladys Eugene (1894), Florence… Read More »
Private Frederick Ross Elliott enlisted in Winnipeg in April 1917, at age 17. He served in Canada and Great Britain for about two years, returning home in July 1919. Frederick was the only son of Thomas Elliott and Margaret Jennie McRitchie of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Thomas was born in England and came to Canada as a… Read More »
William Core was born on 18 August 1871 in Skipton, Yorkshire, England. His parents Joseph Metcalfe Core and Elizabeth Wheeler married during the last quarter of 1868 in Skipton. William had an older brother Arthur, born in Skipton in 1868 but by the time of the birth of Anne in 1874 the family was living… Read More »
Birth and early life: The obituary of Thomas Steele Scott states he was born in Wishart, England and died in his 59th year; however, records indicate he was born April 19, 1873, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, son of Thomas Scott and Janet A. Steele. By the time the 1881 census was taken, the family was… Read More »
George Degagne was born on 08 June 1893 in Rat Portage (later known as Kenora), Ontario. He was the oldest son of Pierre Degagne and Florida Charron. Siblings included: Emile (1894-1953), Joseph (1896-1966), Leo (b. 1897), Maria (1899-1899), Albert (1901-1901), Ida (1902-1903), Flora (b. 1904) and Clovis (1906-1915). The 1911 census shows the family living… Read More »
In October 1917 the Canadian Corps moved to the Ypres Salient in Belgium for the Battle of Passchendaele. Artillery shells had destroyed the drainage systems in the area and the battlefield was a wasteland of mud, swamp and water-filled shell holes. The Canadians suffered 15,000 casualties in the operation with over 3,000 men killed and… Read More »
Frederick Henams was baptized on 21 December 1862 in Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets in London, England. He was the son of Frederick Henams (1831-1936), woodcutter and firewood dealer, and Emma Ann Impey (1839-1920), both born in Bethnal Green. Frederick Sr and Emma married on 12 August 1855 in Bethnal Green. Known children born to the… Read More »
James Huston Ross Woods was born on 14 January 1893 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Arthur Woods, son of Irish immigrant Russel Woods and Quebec born Eliza Huston, grew up on a farm in the Kildare/Joliette, Quebec region. His mother Harriet Ross, daughter of William and Margaret (née Caswell) Ross was… Read More »
Adolphus Henry Begg was born on 17 April 1891 in the Rat Portage, Ontario (later named Kenora) area. His parents were John and Juliette (Sturgeon) Begg. The son of Charles Begg, a Hudson Bay Company employee that had immigrated from Favel, Sandwick, Orkney, Scotland in 1831 and married a Metis woman, Catherine Spence, Adolphus’ father… Read More »
John Arthur (Jack) Denault was born on 28 April 1896 in Fort Coulonge, Quebec. His parents, both born in Quebec, were Joseph and Marie Anna (née Paré) Denault who had married in 1879 in LaPasse, Ontario. Children born to the couple were Joseph Edward (1880), Mary (1882), James Frank (1886), Jane (1889), Michael William… Read More »
