When Carl M. Ivany was born on 21 July 1910, in Cupids, Newfoundland, his father, Jonathan Ivimey, was 27 and his mother, Mary Parsons, was 25. He had at least 1 daughter with Ida Blanche Collier. He lived in Coley's Point, Newfoundland in 1921. He died on 6 August 1969, in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 59.