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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Private George Gabriel Carpentier of Marchand, Manitoba enlisted in February 1917 at age 17. He served for eighteen months in England then spent three months in France and Belgium with the 52nd Battalion, returning to Canada in March 1919. Gabriel was the oldest son of Horace Carpentier and Marie Philomene Gosselin. Horace and Marie were… Read More »
Alexander Arthur McIntosh was born on 23 April 1887 in Hatton on Fintray, a village on the River Don in the parish of Fintray about twenty kilometres northwest of Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His Richard McIntosh was from Echt while his mother Isabella Alexander was from Rayne, both in Aberdeenshire. The couple married on 19… Read More »
Private William Armour was the youngest of four brothers who enlisted for service in the First World War. He was 17 years old when he signed up in the fall of 1917 and he served in France and Belgium in the last months of the war. William was born on 25 August 1900 in Dalrymple,… Read More »
Thomas Joseph Cotter was born on 27 March 1891 in Quebec City. Both of his parents Andrew Cotter and Mary Jane O’Neill were born in Quebec to Irish immigrants. The couple married on 21 April 1884 in Quebec City. Over the years Andrew worked as a plumber as did some of his sons. Thomas had… Read More »
Private William James McVeigh enlisted with a railway unit in January 1917 and served in Canada for three months before being discharged for medical reasons. William was the oldest son of William Sr. and Charlotte McVeigh of Kenora, Ontario. William Sr. was born in Belfast, Ireland and after immigrating to Canada as a child… Read More »
Major Herbert Robertson MacDonald enlisted in December 1915 and served with the Canadian Forestry Corps in Great Britain and France. He returned to Canada in March 1919. According to his service record and other documents, Herbert was born on 28 July 1880 in Martintown, Glengarry County, Ontario. His mother, Katherine Janet MacDonald (nee Robertson), was… Read More »
Frederick John Baker was born on 12 April 1891 in Wheston, Derbyshire, England. His parents were Frederick George and Elizabeth Baker. He had at least two sisters – Lizzie born in 1885 and Annie born in 1888. By 1911 the family was living in Ilkeston, Derbyshire where Frederick Sr. was a veterinary surgeon and a… Read More »
Robert Stanley was born in Keewatin, Ontario to James and Elizabeth (Black) Fraser on February 17th, 1889. His brother Alfred had been born in 1885. In the 1891 census, his father James was listed as a bridge carpenter. He continued on in the wood business, being a foreman at a sawmill in 1901. By this… Read More »
Acting Sergeant George Rowe enlisted in February 1916 and served overseas for three years. He was wounded in October 1916 at the Somme Offensive and returned to Canada in July 1919 with a war bride. George was the only son of George Charles Rowe and Elizabeth Veal of Fort William, Ontario. George Sr. was born… Read More »
Acting Sergeant James Walker Orr enlisted in March 1915 and served overseas for three years. He was wounded at Vimy Ridge in April 1917 but he survived the war and returned home with a war bride. James was the son of Robert Barclay Orr and Margaret Walker Bryce of London, Ontario. Robert was born in… Read More »
