ALEX L. MCINTOSH. 


	Alex L. McIntosh, a passenger conductor on the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way, who came to Moose Jaw more than thirty years ago in connection
with his railroad work, was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, on July
29, 1870, and is a son of Alex and Mary (Lindsay) McIntosh. His parents
were both natives of Scotland who came to New Brunswick in early life
and were married there. Alex McIntosh, Sr., was a shipbuilder by trade,
but in later life turned to farming. He and his wife were consistent mem-
bers of the Presbyterian church and reared their ten children in that
faith. Of their five sons and five daughters four sons and two daughters
are living.
	Alex L. McIntosh was the tenth and youngest child in the family.
After he had completed his education in the Bathurst high school he went
to work on the railroad, coming west to indian Head, Saskatchewan, in
November, 1888, a lad of eighteen.  For three or four years he worked
on the track before he went to braking in the spring of 1893. It was in
this year that he came to Moose Jaw to live.  Four years later he was
promoted to the position of freight conductor and in 1901 left Moose Jaw
on his first passenger run. He now runs between this city and Shaunavon.
	The marriage of Mr. McIntosh to Miss Gertrude Payne was celebrated
on the 9th of April, 1896. Like her husband, Mrs. McIntosh is a native
of New Brunswick.  Two of the three children born to Mr. and Mrs.
McIntosh are living: Norma Jean, a teacher of Moose Jaw; and Edith
Gertrude Lees, a pupil in the Collegiate Institute. The only son, Howard
Alex, was killed in action at Estreux, France, on November 3, 1918, just
a few days before the armistice brought an end to the hostilities of the
Great war. He had enlisted in the fall of 1917, as soon as he was eighteen,
and served in the Tenth Battery Third Brigade, under Captain Han-
nington.
	Mr. McIntosh has remained loyal to the religious teachings of his
parents and belongs to the Presbyterian church, while his wife is a com-
municant of the Anglican church.  Politically he gives his allegiance to
the Conservative party and is identified fraternally with the Knights
of Pythias, the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and the Masonic or-
der. In the latter organization he has attained high rank as a York Rite
Mason and he is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. Also he is senior deacon
in Moose Jaw Lodge, No.3, A. F. & A. M.; and has taken fourteen degrees
in the Scottish Rite.



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