John Chantler McDougall

John Chantler McDougall (1842–1917) was a missionary, civil servant and published author in Alberta, Canada.

The Reverend

John McDougall
Born(1842-12-27)December 27, 1842
Sydenham, Canada West
DiedJanuary 15, 1917(1917-01-15) (aged 74)
Calgary, Alberta
NationalityCanadian
OccupationMethodist clergyman
Notable work
 

Personal life

John McDougall was born in 1842 in Sydenham, Upper Canada. He moved west with his father George Millward McDougall to the boreal forest trading post of Norway House in 1860. He followed in his father's footsteps and did missionary work in the western Prairies. He worked for multiple governments on First Nations issues over the years[1] and worked with Native leaders to lobby governments to improve conditions for their people, such as travelling with Little Bear to Ottawa in 1897.[2]

Political involvement

McDougall ran for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1913 Alberta general election under the Alberta Liberal banner in the electoral district of Centre Calgary. He was soundly defeated by Thomas Tweedie.[3]

At the time of his death in 1917, he was working in Calgary enforcing Prohibition, a cause he fully endorsed. A newspaper described him as "a Methodist, but broadly Christian, independent and radical in politics, an intense democrat, and aggressive and liberal in all his views. He had been giving strong support to the People's Forum, an organization in which he was keenly interested."[4] The People's Forum was organized by prominent leftist Albertan William Irvine.

gollark: I like that one.
gollark: "Be polite and reasonable even when discussing controversial topics"?
gollark: "Don't offend everyone?"
gollark: Such as?
gollark: And often people think "I disagree" means "this is clearly offensive and eeeeeeevil and must be banned".

References
  1. "John McDougall". University of Calgary. Retrieved May 10, 2009.;
  2. Edmonton Bulletin, February 8, 1897, page 3
  3. "Centre Calgary results 1913 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 8, 2009.
  4. Claresholm Review-Advertiser, January 29, 1917
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