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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Charles Henry Smith was one of three brothers, the oldest of seven sons of Charles Alexander Smith of Keewatin, Ontario to enlist during the Great War. Charles Henry Smith served with the U.S. Army while his brothers John Wesley Smith and Leonard Edward Smith served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Charles Henry was Charles Smith’s… Read More »
The son of Dennis James and Flora (née Balne) Burns, Walter was born on 19 April 1885 in Chatham, Ontario. It appears that his father, a railroad brakeman, was from the United States while his mother was from England. Walter had a younger brother, Dennis, born in Saskatchewan. Walter signed his attestation papers in Valcartier,… Read More »
Second Lieutenant Arthur Charles Lewer Adams was a law student when he enlisted in Edmonton in February 1916. He served in France with the 46th Battalion then received a commission in the Indian Army. He was sent to India and Afghanistan and returned to Canada in December 1919. Charles was the only son of Reverend… Read More »
Private Thomas Girvan (Garvin) was born on 27 February 1893 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland. His parents were Martin Garvin, a textile mill worker, and Margaret (Maggie) Brown. Thomas had a younger brother Hugh and a younger sister Isabella. Isabella was born on 29 August 1897 and their mother died of scarlet fever two weeks later…. Read More »
Corporal George Allen Muggaberg enlisted in the U.S. army in June 1917, at age 22. He served in France for almost a year and returned to the U.S. in November 1918. George was the middle of three sons of William Muggaberg and Louise Tellefson (Telefson) of Dunseith, Rolette County, North Dakota. Dunseith is in the… Read More »
Samuel Joseph Taylor was born on 13 June 1885 in Lurgan, County Armagh in northern Ireland. His parents were Absalom Taylor, a shoemaker, and Mary Ann Stevenson, the couple marrying on 18 February 1889 in Lurgan. At the time of the marriage Absalom was a widower. Samuel had an older sister Susan (born 1883)… Read More »
Private Joseph Robert enlisted in Kenora, Ontario in March 1916, at age 49. He served overseas in Great Britain for three months and was discharged for medical reasons in November 1916. Joseph and his twin sister Marie Alexina were born on 19 February 1867 in the parish of St-Philippe, Quebec. Their parents were Gédéon Robert,… Read More »
Ivan Lucas Kendall was born on 9 May 1890 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora), in northwestern Ontario. His father William Glanfield Kendall was from Rettendon, Essex, England. At age twenty-three William had immigrated to Canada, first living in Stratford, Ontario where he worked for the Grand Trunk Railway before moving to Winnipeg in 1882… 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 »
Captain Austin Lyman Saunders of Winnipeg arrived in France in February 1916 with the 52nd Battalion. He was killed five months later when a large artillery shell landed on his dugout. Austin was the son of Edward Saunders and Agnes Jane Hay Porteous of Toronto, Ontario. Edward and Agnes were both born in Ontario, called… Read More »
