Railway executive.
Born at Stayner, Ontario on 13 June 1875, son of Thomas James Coyle (1840-1903) and Mary Coyle (1844-1920), he arrived in Winnipeg with his family in 1881 and was educated in the Catholic separate schools. He joined the staff of the general superintendent for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1892 and served as secretary to William Whyte from 1896 to 1901. He then became assistant to Roderick John Mackenzie of Mackenzie Mann and Company, in charge of construction of the Canadian Northern Railway west of the Great Lakes.
In 1917, he was named industrial commissioner in charge of the resources department for the Canadian Pacific Railway. That same year he joined the former Home Bank of Canada and was superintendent for western province for many years. Near the end of his life, he formed his own company, Dominion Equipment and Supply Company.
In 1906, he married Jeanette Farrell (?-?) and they had five sons: Francis Daniel Coyle (1909-?), John Howard Coyle (1911-?), Joseph Thomas Coyle (1912-?), William Ambrose Coyle (1914-?), and Eugene Ahoysius Coyle (1917-?). He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and Manitoba Club.
He died at Winnipeg on 20 January 1940 and was buried in the St. Mary’s Cemetery.
1901 Canada census, Ancestry.
Birth registrations [Daniel Francis Coyle, John Howard Coyle, Joseph Thomas Coyle, William Ambrose Coyle, Eugene Ahoysius Coyle], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registrations [Thomas Coyle, Mary Coyle], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Daniel F. Coyle is dead at 65,” Winnipeg Tribune, 22 January 1940. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9]
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 August 2025
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