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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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William (Bill) McLeod was born on May 22nd 1898 in Rat Portage (now Kenora), Ontario. He was the 8th in a family line of Bill McLeod’s. His parents were merchant, William Allen McLeod and Mary Wilson. Siblings included Julie (b. 1892) and John (b. 1900). Mary McLeod died in 1904 and William Sr. married Edith… Read More »
Stewart Henry McKenzie was born on 1 February 1898 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His parents George William McKenzie and Alice Althea Alexina Donaldson were both born in Quebec, marrying in Rat Portage on 30 May 1894. It appears that they went back to Quebec for awhile, giving birth to daughter Yolande Violet… Read More »
Private Ernest Joseph Doucette enlisted in December 1915, at age 21, and served for three and a half years. He was wounded at the Vimy front in November 1916 but he survived the war and returned home in May 1919. Ernest was the son of Joseph and Adelaide Doucette of Pinewood, Rainy River District, Ontario…. 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 »
Private Lionel Dougald McMurphy enlisted in October 1914 and served overseas for four years, most of that time with the 27th Battalion. He was wounded twice but he survived the war and returned home in May 1919. Lionel was the son of Dougald McMurphy and Olivia Jane Welsh. His parents were both born in Ontario,… Read More »
Nursing Sister Margaret Ellen Sullivan enlisted in February 1916, at age 28, and served for over three years in England and France. She returned to Canada in August 1919 and continued her nursing career at a hospital for veterans. Margaret was the daughter of Patrick Joseph Sullivan and Margaret Mary McIlroy. Patrick was from Ireland… Read More »
Private David Lambert Brown was married and the father of a young daughter when he enlisted with the 42nd Battalion in May 1915. He was killed a year later at the Battle of Mount Sorrel. David was the only son of John Lambert Brown and Annie Martin Andrew of Toronto, Ontario. John was born in… Read More »
Corporal Allan Grant Frisbie was born in Canada and living in Portland, Oregon when the U.S. entered the war in 1917. He enlisted with the Oregon Engineers and served overseas for about a year. Allan was born on 31 October 1899 in Rat Portage, Ontario. His father, George Clayton Frisbie, was born in Pennsylvania and… Read More »
Private Milton McCumber served in France and Belgium with the 78th Battalion (Winnipeg Grenadiers). He was wounded in August 1918 at the Battle of Amiens and returned to Canada four months later. Milton was the youngest son of Daniel McCumber and Hannah Asselstine of Napanee, Ontario. Daniel and Hannah were both born in Ontario and… Read More »
Henry Hill Craig was born on 26 October 1896 in Ottawa, Ontario. His father John McFarlane Craig was from Paisley, Scotland while his mother Elizabeth Hill was from Ireland. The couple married during the month of August in 1886 at the Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church in Montreal, Quebec. Settling in the Ottawa area, at the… Read More »
