When Alvin Gillette Stubson was born on 23 November 1888, in Colfax, Richland, North Dakota, United States, his father, Peter E Stubson, was 42 and his mother, Henrietta Olsen, was 32. He had at least 2 sons with Minnie Pearl Sinclair. He lived in Abercrombie, Richland, North Dakota, United States for about 20 years. He died on 1 April 1974, in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 85, and was buried in Birsay, Saskatchewan, Canada.