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One of the most highly decorated Indigenous people in Canada during the First World War. He was a sniper who killed over 378 Germans soliders

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Francis Pegahmagabow was born on what is now the Shawanaga First Nation reserve in Nobel, Ontario , on the shores of Parry Sound on March 9, 1891

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Pegahmagabow enlisted with the 23rd Regiment (Northern Pioneers) in August 1914, almost immediately after war was declared. Previously, he had worked along the Great Lakes as a marine fireman for the Department of Marine and Fisheries.

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Corporal Pegahmagabow was awarded the Military Medal with two bars, in effect three Military Medals, for heroism on the battlefield. There is no specific documentation on when Pegahmagabow won the Military Medal and his second bar, but evidence suggests that he was awarded the Military Medal for his bravery at the June 1916 battle of Mount Sorrel and his second bar at Amiens in August 1918.

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Francis died in August 5, 1952 in Parry Sound, Canada in honor of him the Canadian military built a monument of him in the Charles W. Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts in Ontario, Canada