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Stanley William McInnis
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Dentist, MLA (1900-1903), MLA (1903-1907), MLA (1907).
Born at St. John, New Brunswick on 8 October 1865, son of John and Mary McInnis, he came to Winnipeg in 1881 and was educated at Manitoba College. In 1886 he attended Philadelphia Dental College where he obtained his DDS degree, after which he settled at Brandon in 1899 and practiced dentistry. He served as President of the Manitoba Dental Association (1896-1899, 1906-1907) and was the first President of the Canadian Dental Association (1906). He also organized the Brandon Fire Insurance Company.
In June 1898, he married Clara M. Beckwith (1873-?) at Baltimore, Maryland. He was elected to the Manitoba Legislature in the 1899, 1903, and 1907 general elections, and was sworn in as Provincial Secretary and Municipal Commissioner on 26 June 1907. A fine baritone singer and a well-known cartoonist, he served as President of the Brandon Horticulture Society.
On 4 November 1907, he died suddenly in Brandon from blood poisoning resulting from appendicitis. He was buried in the Brookside Cemetery.
See also:
Stanley William McInnis, Dictionary of Canadian Biography XIII, 649-50.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People by Prof. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.
Death registration [Stanley William McInnis], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Death comes to Dr. McInnis,” Brandon Weekly Sun, 7 November 1907, page 18.
“Funeral of Dr. M'Innis,” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 November 1907, page 1.
Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Manitoba Library Association, 1971.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, December 1999, 288 pages.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 May 2026
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