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These are the stories of Kenora participants in the First World War.
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Hinds, Frederick
Private Frederick Hinds enlisted in April 1916, at age 52, and served in Great Britain with the Canadian Forestry Corps. He returned to Canada in June 1919. Frederick was born on 6 April 1864 in Brussels, Huron County, Ontario. His mother, Jane Kelly, was from Ireland and his father, Samuel Hinds (Hindes), was born in… Read More »
Stubbins, George Harry
George Harry Stubbins (known as Harry) was born on 13 January 1888 in Manchester, England. His parents were Mark Stubbins, a carpenter and grocer, and Mary Henrietta Robinson. Siblings included James, Martha, John (Jack), Thomas and Mary (Polly). Harry served in the Royal Engineers for two years before coming to Canada. His first arrival in… Read More »
Scoglund, Oscar Emanuel
Oscar Emanuel Skoglund was born on 25 September 1893 in Norman, Ontario, a small community just west of Kenora. It appears that his father August Skoglund was born in Sätterstad, Sunne, Värmland in Sweden, likely immigrating to Canada in 1887. His mother Betty Nilsdotter was from Г–stra Г„mtervik, Sunne, Värmland, immigrating to Canada in 1888…. Read More »
Drysdale, Alexander Abel
Alexander Abel Drysdale was born on 20 November 1893 in London, England. He was the youngest son of Henry Watt Drysdale and Alice Amanda Ward. His siblings included: Henry (1889-1991), James (1891-1982), Dorothy (1892-1979), Eileen (b. 1898) and Edith Marjorie (1901-1989). In the fall of 1906, Alex’s father, Henry, immigrated to Canada and took up… Read More »
Polischuk, Michael
Michael Polischuk was born on 8 November 1887 in Poland. In his early years he was a sailor in the Russian Navy and served during WW1 with the navy, surname as Poloszczuk and rank of Seaman. After the war, he married Prokseda (Pearl) Poleway in 1919. Michael immigrated to Canada, settling in the Kenora area… Read More »
Bird, John Thomas Samuel Roland
Roland (Rollie) Bird came to the Kenora area with his parents Samuel and Margaret Bird and siblings Edna, Dorothy, Margaret and Henry during the decade before the war. His father, Samuel had come to Canada around 1890 from England and settled in the Victoriaville area of Quebec where he found work with the Grand Trunk… Read More »
Waites, Fred
Fred Waites was born on 11 December 1897 in Chorley, Lancashire in England. His father Samuel Waites was from Chorley while his mother Martha Booth was from nearby Preston. The couple married during the second quarter of 1889 in the registration district of Chorley. Children born to the family were Jane Ellen (1889), Florence (1891),… Read More »
Stokes, Frederick Samuel
Frederick Samuel Stokes joined the British army at age 18 and had eight years of regular service followed by four years in the reserves. He was discharged in January 1914 and seven months later the First World War started. He enlisted again, this time with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and he served for another 3-1/2… Read More »
Paul, George Alexander
George Alexander Paul II was born on 6 January 1897 in Rat Portage (later renamed Kenora) in northwestern Ontario according to the 1901 Canada census. His father George Alexander Paul was from Ontario while his mother Isabella McIvor was from Stornoway, Outer Hebrides in Scotland. The couple married on 18 December 1895 in Rat Portage…. Read More »
