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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Cecil Edwin Robertson was born on 5 March 1899 in Dauphin, Manitoba. His parents Edmund John and Edith May (née Percy) Robertson were from Lavant, Lanark, Ontario, marrying in nearby Poland in June of 1893. By 1901 Edmund, Edith and Cecil had moved to Goat Road in Keewatin, Ontario where Edmund found work in the… Read More »
Although he gave his place of birth as Edinburgh in Scotland, John White Nairn was born on 19 April 1892 in nearby Leith. His father John Nairn was from Johnstone, Renfrewshire while his mother Isabella Stuart was from Deskford, Banffshire. John and Isabella had married in 1887 in Edinburgh. After the marriage the couple lived… 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 »
Born on 28 September 1888, John Miller (Jack) Brown grew up on a large farm called Monmouth House in the area of Long Sutton-Lutton in Lincolnshire, England. It appears that his father Thomas Miller Brown took over the management of the farm from his father John Brown in the mid to late 1880’s. During the… Read More »
Jonas Helmer Anderson was born on 13 January 1884 in in the village/croft of Täfteå in Sävar, Västerbotten, Sweden. His father Anders Gustaf Anderson was from Sävar while his mother Emma Johanna Hãgglund was from Nysätra in Västerbotten. The couple married in 1870 in Sävar. Children born to the family in Sävar were Gustaf (1870),… Read More »
Although he gave his birth date on his attestation papers as 15 February 1896, it appears that John Heaton was born during the first quarter of 1894, birth record needed to confirm. His parents, Levi and Sarah (née Lewis) Heaton of Widnes, Lancashire had married during the third quarter of 1893 in the registration district… Read More »
Theodore Woroniak was born on 28 January 1884 in Austria. In later life he went by the name of Fred Warnick. In 1912, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he married Katharine Pouck. At some point after the marriage the couple immigrated to Canada, first living in Winnipeg at the time of the 1916 census, and then in… Read More »
Nursing Sister Edith Alberta Gallagher enlisted in December 1915 and went overseas the following spring. She served for three years at six different hospitals in England and France. Edith was the daughter of Joshua Adam Gallagher and Margaret Linton of Fallbrook, Lanark County, Ontario. Her father was a farmer and her parents were both born… Read More »
Although a birth record was not found, by most accounts Daniel Ernest Steinke was born on 1 January 1896 in Sandstone, Minnesota. He was the son of Julius Steinke and Justina Pitt, both likely from Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. The couple, along with infant son Carl August who was born in 1889 in Hamburg, immigrated to… Read More »
Sapper William Lavigne was living in the Nelson area in British Columbia when he enlisted on 6 September 1916. According to his attestation paper he was born on 27 January 1876 in Kenora, Ontario, although it’s very unlikely he was actually born there. His death registration records his birth as 19 February 1877 in Ontario… Read More »
