Robert McAllister was a businessman and politician in New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

, Canada. He represented St. John County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

The Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick is located in Fredericton. It was established de jure when the colony was created in 1784, but only came in to session in 1786 following the first elections in late 1785. Until 1891, it was the lower house in a bicameral legislature when its upper house...

 as a Conservative member from 1931 to 1960.

He was the son of James McAllister and Jessie Main, both of Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 origin. In 1902, McAllister married a Miss Humphrey. He was a dyer and cleaner. McAllister served as county warden. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias

Knights of Pythias

The Knights of Pythias is a fraternal organization and secret society founded at Washington, DC, on 19 February 1864.The Knights of Pythias was the first fraternal organization to receive a charter under an act of the United States Congress. It was founded by Justus H. Rathbone, who had been...

. He was first elected to the provincial assembly in an 1931 by-election held after John M. Baxter

John Babington Macaulay Baxter

John Babington Macaulay Baxter, PC was a New Brunswick lawyer, jurist and the 19th Premier of the Canadian Province of New Brunswick....

was appointed a judge.