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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Private William John Dentry enlisted early in the war and served overseas for four and a half years. He returned to Canada in May 1919 with a war bride. William was born on 13 April 1894 in Fulham, London, England, the oldest son of Albert Isaac Dentrey (Dentry) and Eliza Moore. Albert was also born… Read More »
Frank William Morley was born on 26 February 1882 in Huntsville, Ontario. His father Charles Morley was born in Torquay, England but had spent a few years in the Australia gold fields, returning to England before immigrating to North America. At some point he married a Scottish lass, Mary Rennie. The couple’s first born child… Read More »
According to his baptism record, Walter John (Jack) McDonald was born on 19 November 1896 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Duncan Alexander McDonald was from Ontario while his mother Mary Elizabeth Kerr was from Scotland, the couple marrying on 21 October 1886 in East Selkirk, Manitoba. By the time of the… Read More »
Private Leo James Lalonde enlisted in April 1916 and served with the Canadians Corps for over two years. For much of that time he was a front line soldier but he suffered from health problems and he spent several months in hospitals in England and France. He died of illness in November 1918, a week… Read More »
Born on 27 June 1880 in Round Hill, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Ernest Edward Wagstaff was the eldest child of William and Mary (née Yewdale) Wagstaff who had married 26 August 1979 in Annapolis. His father, born in Nova Scotia, was a carpenter by trade while his mother was from England. When the couple first married… Read More »
Stanley Carter Stratton was born on 6 November 1890 in Gardner, Massachusetts. His parents were George Kendall Stratton and Fannie Goodridge. He had two brothers and one sister: Fred Leighton (b. 1886), Harriet Goodridge (b. 1889) and Raymond Kendall (b. 1895, d. 1903). Stanley grew up in Bradford, New Hampshire and attended Simons Free High… Read More »
Robert Bathgate Creighton was born on 12 November 1891 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father George Creighton, the son of Irish immigrants, was from the Waltham area of Quebec and had married Margaret Gardner, the daughter of Scottish immigrants, who was from Dalhousie, Lanark, Upper Canada. By the mid 1870’s the couple… 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 John Harrison Hornby served with the 52nd Battalion for two years, from May 1915 to May 1917. After developing tuberculosis he was invalided to Canada for treatment and discharged as medically unfit in June 1918. John was the youngest son of George Stephenson Hornby and Sarah Harrison Goodall. George and Sarah were both born… Read More »
Private William Thomas Brown enlisted underage when he was 16 years old and he served for more than four years in Canada, England, France, Belgium and Germany. He was wounded twice but he survived the war and returned home in May 1919. William was the oldest son of Joseph Brown and Mary Robinson of Kenora,… Read More »
