Insurance company manager.
Born at Vernon, Prince Edward Island on 27 June 1881, son of MPP David P. Irving and Anne Tweedie, he was educated at Vernon Academy and the Guelph Agricultural College. He started in the insurance business as Manager of the Sun Life, Calgary and Southern Alberta at Lethbridge. He then returned to Charlottetown as Manager of the Sun there then to Toronto as Instructor of agents. He came to Brandon and organised the division and became Divisional Manager.
He married Jean Kennedy Wright (c1882-1958) and they had one son and three daughters. The family lived at 526-14th Street, Brandon (c1925). He was a member of the Brandon Rotary Club, Canadian Club of Brandon, Brandon Golf Club, Brandon Country Club, and Masons (North Star No. 4, Lethbridge). He was an elder of the Presbyterian Church Avenue Road Presbyterian Church in Toronto, and an Elder of Lethbridge and Charlottetown Presbyterian churches.
He died at Regina, Saskatchewan in January 1966 and was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery at Saskatoon.
Pioneers and Prominent People of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Canadian Publicity Company, 1925.
“Active in community life, Mrs. A. J. Irving dead,” Regina Star-Phoenix, 18 April 1958, page 3.
“Alex Irving service held,” Regina Star-Phoenix, 24 January 1966, page 14.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 June 2024
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