Obituary printed in the Pictou Advocate 6 November 1926. 

Mr. Hector MacInnes

Mr. Hector MacInnes, well known carpenter of Pictou, was found dead about one o'clock on Monday afternoon on the roof of J. Smith Grant's house on Denoon Street, where he had been working. 

Mr. MacInnes had been engaged on Monday morning by Mr. Grant to make some repairs and, after surveying the job, had gone down town and secured the necessary material.  He went to his hom about 11 o'clock and procured his lunch, and then returned to his work.  When Mr. Grant arrived home to dinner he made his way to the top of the house to see how Mr. MacInnes was progressing, and found him lying about three feet from the edge of the roof, apparently lifeless.  Dr G. A. Dunn was summed and pronounced life extinct, naming heart disease as the cause.  Mrs. MacInnes states that for some time Mr. MacInnes had been troubled with shortness of breath, which bears out the doctor's diagnosis.  It is evident that Mr. MacInnes was stricken shortly after he reached the roof, as his work had just begun. 

Mr. MacInnes, who was in his 71st year, is survived by his wife, formerly Miss May MacLean, of Riversdale, Colchester County, and one daughter, Miss Eva MacInnes, manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company's office in Pictou.  Three sisters, Mrs. D. A. MacKenzie, of Toney River; Mrs. D. D. MacIntosh of Oxford, and Mrs. M. A. Campbell of Providence, R. I., also survivie. 

Mr. McInnes was next door neighbor of the Advocate office and we could have no better neighbor.  The editor and he always had a word for one another and we will miss his kindly greeting morning and evening.  He was a good man, an upright citizen, in brief, a Christian gentleman.