Educator.
Born in the Orkney Islands, Scotland around 1879, son of Daniel “Dan” McNeil and Jessie Jane Dewar, he served in the Imperial Army during the South African War and likely took teacher training prior to arrival in Canada in 1903. By 1904, he was residing in the Poplar Heights School District and there, on 14 November 1904, he married Sarah Elizabeth “Bessie” Tully (1883-?). They had ten children: Jessie Milward McNeill (1906-?), Margaret McNeill (1908-?), James Daniel McNeill (1909-?, Ethel Charlotte McNeill (1911-?), John Tully McNeill (1913-?), William Patrick McNeill (1917-?), Charles Henry McNeill (1918-?), Leila Jean McNeill (1920-?), Bessie McNeill (c1923-?), and another daughter.
He worked as an educator and taught in rural Manitoba schools, at Meadowlea School (1905-1916), Warren School (?-?), Stonewall School (1920-1921), Winnipeg Beach School (1921-1923, Principal), Griswold School (1923-1936, Principal), Reaburn School (1929-1942, 1944-1946), Hoey West School (1942-1944), and at Fullers (north of Selkirk). In retirement, he lived at Marquette and was an Elder of Meadow Lea United Church.
He died at Portage la Prairie on 3 June 1956.
Birth and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [Sarah Elizabeth Tully], Nova Scotia Vital Statistics.
1921 & 1926 Canada censuses, Library and Archives Canada.
“Early teacher, D. F. McNeill dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 5 June 1956, page 15.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 5 November 2023
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