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The Olds cemetery records the son as dying in 1919 so a year prior to his mother.  There is no birth date but my father always said his brother was younger. His name was Donald Dougal McKechnie.

I just stumbled on this. My Grandfather was the Robert McKechnie that is questioned in this chat. We knew very little about my Grandfather, neither did my father. He said he came from the east...Ontario. But my father never knew any of his relatives nor did my Grandfather even share his birth date. His age at death was a “best guess” from tidbits he had shared. Where did his wife come from, we never knew. Did he marry her in the east or after he moved west? We didn’t know. Grandpa was totally closed about everything. His wife, my Grandmother, Alma, died when my father was very young as did my father’s brother. My Grandfather left my dad in the care of an orphanage and went to work on the railroad. At some point they reunited. I would love to learn more about my dad’s family tree. I was named Alma, after my grandmother. So was Grandpa ever in the United States? Could he be the person you are asking about? We just had only one piece of history and that was his statement that he came from Ontario. I was told my Grandmother was buried in Calgary in a Catholic cemetery because she was in the Holy Cross Hospital in Calgary, run by the nuns, at the time of her death. My Grandfather is buried in Olds because he had bought plots there (I don’t know why he chose Olds) and buried his son there. But I think you had to be Catholic to be buried in a Catholic cemetery and my Grandmother was only introduced to the Catholic faith when she was dying. My Grandfather lived his elder years in High River where we lived. And that is where my father, Allan, died.