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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Along with his twin brother Rudolph Eugene, Einer Sixtus Hansen was born on 18 October 1900 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), Ontario. His father Johan Haaken (John) Hansen, a marine engineer, was born in Norway and had immigrated to Canada with his widowed father and some of his siblings in the late 1880’s, first… Read More »
Although he gave his date of birth as 9 May 1882 on his attestation papers, born in Maidenhead, Berkshire in England, Henry James Weston’s birth was registered during the second quarter of 1884. His parents Henry Weston and Emily Looker had married during the second quarter of 1882 in the same registration district. Henry had… Read More »
John Simpson enlisted in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 8 December 1915. According to his attestation paper he was born on 15 August 1893 in Kenora, Ontario and John Simpson was an “adopted” name, possibly an anglicized version of his birth name. As next of kin he listed his mother Keenia Samson in Russia. John said he… Read More »
Andrew Shalin Olson, son of Olaf Olson and Hannah Neilson, was born 01 July 1877 in Helsinborg, Sweden. He reported eight years of service in the British Marine Service before coming to Canada in 1903. Andrew was naturalized as a Canadian citizen in 1909. He settled in Eriksdale, Manitoba. On 11 August 1913 Andrew married… Read More »
With a family of eight children, five of the Montgomery sons were to enlist during the war. The Montgomery family had its roots in Lanark County in Ontario. Oswald Montgomery Sr, the son of a farmer and local justice of the peace, was born in 1857 in the township of Drummond. On 11 June 1884,… Read More »
Alexander McEachran Brown was known as ‘Sandy’ to a host of friends in Kenora. He was born on February 8 in either 1867 (as in his obituary and on his tombstone) or 1876 (as recorded on his attestation papers). Many men, younger or older didn’t give their true age for ‘fear’ of being rejected to… Read More »
Found on the passenger list for the Athenia, 17 year old Leonard Herbert Lambley arrived in Canada on 20 August 1906. Occupation given as farm labourer, according to the record he had been sent to Canada by his father. He was next found in Tacoma, Washington signing a Declaration of Intention on 25 November 1910… Read More »
Driver Alexander Sturrock Fearn joined the Canadian Army Service Corps in December 1915, at age 25. He served overseas for three years and returned to Canada in May 1919. Alexander was born on 18 September 1890 in the parish of Monikie in Forfarshire, Scotland. His mother, Annie Wilson Fearn, was 21 years old at the… Read More »
Hugh was born December 6, 1887 in Maybole, Ayrshire Scotland to Alexander and Mary (McLeod) Gordon. He was the 11th of 14 children. Some of the family, including Hugh, set sail for Canada on the SS Corinthian, leaving Glasgow on August 18, 1906. Upon arrival in Montreal, the family arrived in Keewatin, Ontario September… Read More »
Edwin Robert (Ted) Newell was born on 21 October 1888 in Keewatin, Ontario, date and place confirmed by his Ontario birth record. His father Edwin Newell was from England while his mother Jane Donnelly was from Ontario. It appears that the couple first lived in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba before moving to northwestern Ontario. The… Read More »
