McALLISTER, Henry Bernard 'Mac' - Born on November 26, 1925 and passed away on June 13, 2021.
Born on a farm in rural Nova Scotia Henry, known to friends as Mac, was the third son in a family of seven. He had three brothers Chris, Bill, and Donald and three sisters Louise, Sally, and Hilda.
Mac left the family farm to join the Canadian Army at the age of 18 in 1944, one of his duties being to drive a Diamond ‘T’ Wrecker tow truck in the motor pool. He was preparing to go overseas when the War in Europe ended.
He was awarded the 1939-45 Canadian Volunteer Service Medal in 1946 and discharged as a Corporal in March 1947, joining the RCMP later that same year.
Henry McAllister and Marion Elizabeth “Betty” Feeney were married in Toronto in 1953 with an honour guard of RCMP officers in full dress uniform. Their son, Michael, was born in 1955.
After training in Regina, Mac was posted to several cities in Northern Ontario before being transferred to headquarters in Ottawa and joining ‘D’ Branch Directorate of Security and Intelligence in 1957 where he spent years in counter-intelligence operations until his retirement from the force as a Staff Sergeant in 1971. He then joined the security team at the Bank of Canada in Toronto where he worked until his retirement in 1987.
Mac enjoyed many happy years of retirement gardening, travelling to the family cottage at Georgian Bay, and visiting relatives in Nova Scotia.
After the death of his first wife Betty in 1989, Mac was remarried in 1993 to Blanche, the widow of Betty’s brother Jim Feeney, who sadly passed away in 2003.
Mac is survived by his son Mike, daughter-in-law Beverley, grandson Aaron, and nieces Brenda, Celina, Shauna, and Carol.
Arrangements are entrusted with Giffen-Mack funeral home, Scarborough chapel.
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