Memorable Manitobans: Allan B. Fallis (1874-1948)

A. F. Fallis Click to enlarge

Educator.

Born in Ontario in December 1874, he came to Manitoba in 1893 and began teaching in St. Andrews. He moved to Dauphin in 1900 to take the position of school principal and in 1905 he became the first School Inspector at Neepawa. In 1921 he was transferred to Portage la Prairie where he retired in 1939. He was President of the Manitoba Educational Association from 1934 to 1935. On 25 December 1907, he married teacher Minnie Russell Sutherland (who had taught at Hamilton School) at Dauphin. They had three children: William David Fallis, Harry Fallis, and Mrs. Victor Dotten. He died at Portage la Prairie in January 1948 at the age of 75.

Sources:

Birth and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

1911 Canada Census, Automated Genealogy.

“Former School Inspector dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 12 January 1948. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B10, page 3]

The History of the Manitoba Educational Association by Ernest Butterworth, MEd thesis, Faculty of Graduate Study and Research, University of Manitoba, 1965.

Between Mountain and Lake: A History of Ochre River Rural Municipality, 1885-1970 by Ochre River Women’s Institute History Committee, Neepawa: The Neepawa Press, 1970, page 31.

This profile was prepared by Sarah Ramsden and Gordon Goldsborough.

Profile revised: 20 May 2013

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