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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Private Robert Armour was married and the father of two young children when he enlisted in Winnipeg in January 1916. He was wounded in the last weeks of the war but he survived and returned home in March 1919. Robert was the oldest son of Thomas and Jane Armour of Keewatin, Ontario. He was born… Read More »
Martin Forbes Allen was born on 28 October 1889 in the village of Farewell, Township of Arthur in Wellington North, Ontario. His parents were William and Marjory (née McIntosh) Allen. Over the years William worked as a shopkeeper, farmer, and carpenter/builder. Children born to the family were Ellen Jane (1879-1879), Lodvick Richard (1881-1925), Rachel William… Read More »
The Hulmes family was from Manchester, Lancashire in England where parents Thomas and Martha (Pennington) had married on 24 March 1883. Thomas was listed as a coal wharfinger (takes custody of and is responsible for goods delivered to the wharf) in the 1891 census and as a coal dealer in later censuses. Children born… Read More »
William Wood was born on 19 February 1870 in the Ethel area in Grey Township, Huron, Ontario. His parents were John Stephen Wood and Catherine Link, both from the Cornwall, Stormont, Ontario area. The couple likely married around1857 in Cornwall where they were to farm for a number of years. Children born in Cornwall were… Read More »
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 »
Charles Rogerson Cotter was born on 17 October 1897 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His father Alexander McCaul Cotter was born in Austria, the son of an Irish Reverend and his wife. An age appropriate Alex Cotter arrived in Canada on the Circassian on 29 April 1889, on his way to Winnipeg. By the time of the… Read More »
Bombardier Edward Harold Ingram enlisted in June 1915, at age 19. He served with the Canadian Field Artillery in Canada, Great Britain, France, Belgium and north Russia and returned home in July 1919. Edward Harold, known as Harold, was the only son of Henry Lloyd Ingram and Mary Elizabeth Parker. He was born on 25… Read More »
John Cousland Rodger was born on 26 July 1896 in the Dennistoun area of Glasgow, Scotland. His father John Rodger was from Holytown, Lanarkshire while his mother Cecilia Jenkins Cousland was from Glasgow. Although both were living in Glasgow at the time, the couple married on 4 October 1892 in Perth. John Sr, listed as… Read More »
Sergeant Robert Robertson Gray was married and working as a florist when he enlisted in Winnipeg in December 1915. He served in Canada and the UK for two years and a half years. Robert was born in Glasgow, Scotland and immigrated to Canada in the spring of 1901, arriving in April on the SS State… Read More »
Lieutenant George Gillespie Creighton arrived in France in February 1916 and four months later he was seriously injured in an accident. He was invalided to Canada in December and he died in a drowning accident in July 1917. George was the son of William Travers Creighton and Jean Menzies Gillespie of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Jean was… Read More »
