Farmer, war veteran.
Born near Whitby, Yorkshire, England in 1873, son of Dixon McNeil and Anne Green, he was educated at Yorkshire schools. He came to the Reston district in 1892 and worked at farming. In 1897, he took up a homestead near Sinclair and purchased land, by the mid-1920s farming three quarter-sections and raising Shorthorn cattle. He retired in 1943 and moved to Winnipeg.
Prior to the First World War, he was a member of the 12th Manitoba Dragoons of the Canadian Militia. He was later a Captain of the Border Horse. He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as Lieutenant of the 200th Battalion, 10th Reserve in England and France, and later the 107th Battalion in October 1917. He was at Passchendaele, Arras, Amiens, Cambrai, Canal du Nord, Valenciennes, and Mons, and served with the army of occupation.
He married Martha Lucinda Farrants (1879-1973) of Toronto, Ontario. They had no children. He was President of the Reston Agricultural Society and President of the Sinclair Local of the United Farmers of Manitoba. He was a member of the Masons, Anglican church, and Progressive party. He was on the reserve of the Canadian Militia with the rank of Captain.
He died at the Deer Lodge Hospital on 26 August 1967 and was buried in the Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Pioneers and Prominent People of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Canadian Publicity Company, 1925.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 28 August 1967, page 29.
Obituary [Martha Lucinda McNeil], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 October 1973, page 37.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 May 2024
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