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David Allan Maguire
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Optometrist.
Born at Toronto, Ontario on 7 June 1879, son of Edward A. Maguire and Eliza A. Montgomery, he came to Winnipeg in 1911 where he worked as an optometrist. During the First World War, he served with the 8th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. After his military discharge, he returned to Winnipeg and his medical practice.
On 27 May 1914, he married Alice Miniota Stidston (1884-1970) at Winnipeg and they subsequently had two sons: Richard David Maguire (1916-1999) and Edward Stidston Maguire (1919-1945). He served as President of the Manitoba Association of Optometrists (1915, 1930-1931) and the Canadian Optometrical Society. He was a member of the Masons (Northern Light Lodge) and St. Stephen’s Broadway Church.
He died suddenly at his Winnipeg home on 25 January 1946 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
Birth registration, Ancestry.
Marriage registration [David Allan Maguire, Alice Miniola Stedston], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registrations [Richard David Maguire, Edward Stidston Maguire], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
“David Allan Maguire head of Optometry Society is dead,” Winnipeg Free Press, 26 January 1946, page 10.
Obituary [Alice Miniota Maguire], Winnipeg Free Press, 27 February 1970, page 17.
Obituary [Richard David Maguire], The Globe and Mail, 19 April 1999.
Flight Lieutenant Edward Stidston Maguire, FindAGrave.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Julia Payne for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 April 2026
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