Allan Homer Bechamp

Have a gun, will travel. And so goes Allan Homer Bechamp (May 25, 1931 – January 27, 2026) the World’s Most Interesting Man. Allan’s grandmother wanted him to be a priest and six-year-old Allan said he would, albeit with a babe in one hand and a gun in the other.

As his nephew Robert recalled, Allan wasn’t definite about a lot of things in his twenties, but the one thing he was dead set on doing was marrying Janet Wellis. He had called for Janet’s roommate, who wasn’t home. Without missing a beat, he told Janet that he’d shot a deer and offered a venison dinner. She accepted, and there began a romance which spanned sixty-seven years.

Allan Worked at CN Express office for 36 years, first downtown, then the Flour Mill, Maley Dr, and settling in Capreol until his retirement. He was a long serving president of his local union. His hobbies were countless: scuba diving, bodybuilder at Connie Lou’s gym, boxer at the INCO club, hockey player for Victory Billiards, biking with Ray King on their ‘52 Harleys wearing their James Dean Hats.

He was a self-taught gunsmith. Neighbors must have thought he was a carpet cleaner with all the strange men carrying rolled up carpet into the house.

He competed in the Ontario Summer Games doe pistol and was also a ringer for the Sudbury Regional at the police shoots, winning trophies on behalf of our boys in blue. He was a former member of the Sudbury Game and Fish and Sudbury Revolver Club, and life member at Rifles and Reels.

Allan served our country in the 58th Artillery Reserve and was a proud Legion member at Branch 76, where he was a former Sergeant at Arms and Ways and Means Chair.

He was a sea cadet in the 1940s, and later a commanding officer of the Navy League core #44. Under his leadership, with the support of Lieutenants Hartley and Rutherford, the core was awarded most outstanding two years in a row. Allan was an exceptional artist and artisan. He was offered a position as a holster designer for Colt based on his leather craft skills. You couldn’t say he dabbled in anything, as he did everything so well: horn Scrimshaw work, beading, woodcraft. He took up archery with the Nickle Belt Bowmen and became a Bowyer and Fletcher.

The best of times were had in the Black Powder Club, dressing like voyageurs and firing flintlock rifles at Family Day shoots. They put on displays as the Northeastern Volunteers at fairs and provincial parks.

He was known as Scouter Al to all his scouts, and made the best root beer.

Allan and Janet shared all their outdoor adventures with their three children, Allan Jr (Maggie), Nicholas and Jennifer, and introduced granddaughter, Alana, to the art of fishing.

When he spoke of his youth with his buddies Cecil, Ray and Henry, Allan said every get-together meant a sore stomach from laughing so much. An enviable life, indeed. Parents Ruth and Homer Bechamp would be proud of their son as is his sister, Hilda (Clayton Sagadore).

So off he rides with the big iron on his hip.

Paladin, roam free.

The family wants to express our gratitude to the staff at Extendicare Countryside. Allan said you all treated him very well. Enjoy a chocolate for him.

Cremation services are provided by Simple Wishes of the North, Sudbury, and Crystal Crematorium.

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