Be careful not to confuse him with his first cousin Squire Alvin Bledsoe Day, born 25 July 1856 in Fayetteville, Johnson Co., Missouri, son of Leroy Day and Eliza Jane Tuttle.

The list of passengers applying for admission from Canada to the U.S. at the Port of Noyes, Minnesota, on 7 July 1915 includes an entry for Squire Alvin Day, age 60, farmer, ethnicity English, born in Flemingsburg, Ky, USA, representing self, last permanent residence Hanna, Alberta, Canada, nearest relative or contact in place of origin within Canada son-in-law George Horner, Hanna, Alberta, previous years of residence in US 1854-1912, last place of residence in US Flemingsburg, Ky, last departure from US Feb 1912, destination Flemingsburg, Ky, meeting brother Hiram O. Day, height 5’10”, medium build, gray hair, brown eyes.

He is accompanied by his wife Sarah, age 61, with mostly dittos on the data, except that her ethnicity is German, her birthplace Owingsville, Ky, her previous period of US residency 1853-1912, Hiram Day is identified as her brother-in-law, and she is 5’4” with gray hair and blue eyes.

(Hanna is a small town about 150 miles NE of Calgary, most notable today as the home town of the band Nickleback.)

1880 census of Lewis Co., Ky, Tolesboro precinct, enumerated 15 June, lists onp. 13 as family #8:
Day, Alvin S., 25, minister of the Gospel; Sarah E., 26, wife; Maud M., 8, dau; Charley L., 6, son; Robert A., 4, son; Maranda E., 2; dau; Jhey B., 3/12, b. Feb, son. All born Ky Ky Ky.

1900 census of Fleming Co., Ky, Hillsboro precinct, enumerated 27 June, lists on p. 7B as family #314/330:
Day, Alvin, 45, b. Oct 1854, preacher; Laura, 46, wife, b. Nov 1853, married 30 years, mother of 10 children, 10 living; Anna B., dau, 15, b. Jan 1885; May, dau, 12, b. Nov 1887; Kate N., dau, 10, b. Nov 1889; Thomas, son, 9, b. Jan 1891; Ruth, dau, 4, b. May 1896. Cians, Jamew W., boarder, 79, b. Sep 79, widowed, married 40 years, merchant. All born Ky Ky Ky.

1910 census of McLean Co., Illinois, Normal township, enumerated 27 Apr, lists on p. 20A as family #502/509, at 810 Sudduth Road:
Day, Sam A., 55, b. Ky Va Ky, fruit grower; Sarah E., wife, 55, b. Ky Ky Ky, first marriage for both, married 40 years, mother of 2 children, 2 living; Thomas, son, 19, b. Ky Ky Ky; Ruth, dau, 13, b. Missouri Ky Ky.

1920 census of McLean Co., Illinois, Normal township, enumerated 27 Jan, lists on p. 25B as family #596/610, on Sudduth Road:
Day, S. Alvin, 65, b. Ky Va Ky, traveling furniture salesman; Sarah E., wife, 66, b. Ky Missouri Ky.