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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Auguste Dieudonnais Metail was born on 24 September 1894 in Saint-Jeures, Haute-Loire, France. His father Joseph Metail was also from Saint-Jeures while his mother Anne Charlotte Crepet was from nearby Chambon-Feugerolles, Loire where the couple married on 30 October 1893. The young family immigrated to Canada in 1895, arriving in New York aboard the Maasdam… Read More »
Private John O’Connor joined the 108th Battalion in January 1916 and arrived in France a year later. He was killed in action in August 1917 at the Battle of Hill 70. John was the oldest son of Patrick O’Connor and Sarah Jane McPherson of Rainy River, Ontario. Sarah grew up at Sabaskosing on Lake of… Read More »
Private Frank Gork was born on 17 April 1895 in Buffalo, New York, the son of German immigrants John Gork and Annie Levandoski. He had two older brothers, Charlie (1890) and Joseph (1893). The family moved to Canada around 1898, John first followed later by his wife and children. They farmed in the RM of… Read More »
Private Sidney Wright Currie enlisted in a forestry unit in January 1917, at age 35, and served overseas for two years. Sidney was the son of Archibald and Annie Currie of Souris East, King’s County, Prince Edward Island. He was born in Souris East (now the Town of Souris) on 14 March 1881. He had… Read More »
William Jones was among the first Kenora volunteers. His name was published on Aug. 12, 1914 as having enlisted in the 98th Regiment following a call for volunteers on Aug. 9. Born in Wales to Thomas and Hannah Jones, both he and his brother Thomas immigrated to Canada in May 1913 and worked at the… Read More »
William James Chapman was born on 01 November 1864 in Belfast, Ireland. He was the oldest son of Benjamin Chapman and Maria Chew. In 1866 the Chapman family immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto where Benjamin practiced his trade of watchmaker and jeweler. Other children in the family were Elizabeth, Charles, Julia, Edward and… Read More »
Frederick William Jackson was born on 7 April 1880 in South Hackney, London, England. He was the first born child of William Walter Jackson who was from St George in the East, London and Matilda Taylor who was from South Hackney. The couple married on 31 May 1879 in Clerkenwell, Islington in London. At the… Read More »
Stanley Earl Bolton was born on 24 March 1895 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario. His father Philip Henry Bolton was from the township of Bastard in Leeds County, Ontario while his mother Rosie McQuade was from Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland. A few weeks after her arrival in Winnipeg in 1888 the… Read More »
William George Webb was born 25 September 1877 in Old Ford, London, Middlesex, England. He was the third of seven children born to Edwin Webb and Eliza Sayer. He received his education in England and became a plasterer by trade. He married Jane Phillips Nixon in West Ham, Essex in 1899 and their daughter Jane… Read More »
