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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Emery Gordon McGuffin was born on 22 September 1895 in the Glenella, Manitoba area (birth registered in the RM of Lansdowne). His parents John McGuffin and Ellen Sugden were both from West Nissouri, Middlesex, Ontario as given on their marriage record of 10 April 1888 in nearby Thorndale. Around 1894 John and Ellen moved to… Read More »
Thomas G. Adams was living in Kenora, Ontario in the 1940s and he joined the local branch of the Canadian Legion on 2 February 1942. His address at the time was the Canadian Pacific Railway Lunch Counter in Kenora. His Legion application tells us he enlisted in Newcastle, England in April 1918 and served with… Read More »
Harry Emmerson Primmer was born in the area of Hepworth, Amabel Township in the county of Bruce, Ontario. A birth record could not be found but it is likely that he was born on 5 May 1893. Census documents give his birth as 5 May 1893, his obituary as 1894, and his attestation papers/service record… Read More »
Leonard Edward Smith was one of three of seven sons of Charles Alexander Smith of Keewatin, to enlist during the Great War. Leonard and his older brother John Wesley Smith served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, while Charles Henry Smith served with the U.S. Army Born May 4, 1895 in the Muskoka District of central… Read More »
According to his attestation papers, Charles Edwin Louis Hilliard was born on 23 August 1884 in Whitemouth, Manitoba. His father was Louis Hilliard, a Norwegian that had immigrated to Canada in 1870 (date found in 1901 Canada census), and his mother was Ann McGinnis, origins given as Irish. The couple was found in the 1881… Read More »
Samuel Parkes was born on 18 February 1891 in Birmingham, England. His parents Isaac Parkes and Betsy Oseland were both from Birmingham, their marriage registered during the 3rd quarter of 1889 in King’s Norton, an area in Birmingham. The 1891 England census listed the family in King’s Norton and in 1901 in Aston, another area… Read More »
George Alphonse Harpin was born on 19 January 1884 in Saint-Ours, Quebec, birth name on his baptism record given as Alphonse Charles Joseph Arpin. Saint-Ours is on the south side of the Saint Lawrence River between Montreal and Trois Riviere. His father Francois Xavier Harpin (Arpin) was a navigateur (sailor) and had married Marie Lahaise… Read More »
Private Louis (Lewin/Lewis) Hansen was living in northwestern Ontario when he enlisted on 14 April 1916. He signed up in Winnipeg with the 197th (Vikings of Canada) Battalion, which was based in Winnipeg and recruited in western Canada. His address was Keewatin, Ontario, his occupation was ranger and next of kin was his cousin Constance… Read More »
Samuel Brest was likely born in 1899 in Russia. His father was Eli (aka Alexander) Brest and he had at least two sisters, the family immigrating to Canada around 1906, settling in Kenora, Ontario where Eli worked as a second hand dealer. With occupation given as barber and his father Alexander (aka Eli) in Kenora… Read More »
Cyril Delamere Boyce was born on 21 May 1894 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Arthur Cyril Boyce was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England and after graduating from Osgoode Hall in Toronto, practiced law in Port Arthur, Ontario before moving to Rat Portage. He married Victoria May Louisa Machin on 14 October… Read More »
