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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Private Frederick William Brash was called up for service in February 1918, at age 21. He served for a year in Canada. Frederick was born on 14 March 1896 in Thessalon, District of Algoma, Ontario. His parents were Robert Alexander Brash, a lumberman, and his second wife Hannah Copeland. Robert had a son, Robert Earl,… Read More »
John Harrison Hill was one many British Isle immigrants who came to Canada in the early 1900s to take advantage of land grants for would be farmers in Saskatchewan. For a $10 payment settlers were given provisional title to 160 acres of farmland, and if they could farm the land for five years and erect… Read More »
Private Joseph Robert Bunting was called up in January 1918 and he served in France with the 72nd Battalion. He was wounded twice but he survived the war and returned home in January 1919. Joseph Robert was the youngest son of Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Bunting of North Vancouver, British Columbia. His parents were both… Read More »
Private Albert Gustafson was the son of Gustaf Jonsson and Anna Casja Andersdotter of Skaraborg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden. He was born on 11 July 1862, with his birth registered in Luttra Parish, Falkoping, Skaraborg. When a clerical survey was taken in 1880 Albert was living at home in Gokhem, Skaraborg with his parents, six brothers… Read More »
Lawrence James McArthur was born on 30 April 1895 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Daniel McArthur was from Newcastle, Nova Scotia while his mother Florence/Flora McDougall was from Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The couple married on 26 April 1892 in Rat Portage where Dan worked as an engineer. Children born to the… Read More »
As reported in the 2 April 1919 edition of the Kenora Miner and News, the towns of Kenora and Keewatin held a large reception at the Tourist Hotel to honour returning veterans. On the list was T. S. Mackie. His identity could not be confirmed.
Charles Robert Stanford was born on 12 February 1881 in Hackney, London, England. His father Joseph Stanford, a bootmaker, was from Norwich in Norfolk while his mother Sarah was from Exeter in Devon. Over the years the family lived in a number of London communities, Shoreditch, Bethal Green, Hoxton, Hackney, and Islington. Nine children were… 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 »
George James Peacock was born on 12 December 1883 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. He was the youngest child of John and Elizabeth Peacock. Siblings included sisters Alice, Harriett, Maria and Elizabeth; and brother John William. The 1901 England census records that George was working as a grocer’s apprentice. His father and brother were both… Read More »
