John McDougall

Forest, Lake and Prairie (Annotated) John McDougall

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-John Chantler McDougall (1842-1917) was a missionary, officer, and published author in Alberta, Canada. 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 at Norway House in 1860. He followed in his father's footsteps and did missionary work in the western prairies. He worked for various governments on First Nations affairs over the years and worked with native leaders to pressure governments to improve the conditions of their people, such as traveling with Little Bear to Ottawa in 1897. McDougall ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislative Assembly in the 1913 Alberta general election under the Liberal flag of Alberta in the Center Calgary constituency. He was defeated by Thomas Tweedie. At the time of his death in 1917, he was working in Calgary enforcing Prohibition, a cause he fully supported. He was described by a newspaper as "a Methodist, but widely Christian, independent and radical in politics, an intense and aggressive Democrat and Liberal in all respects. He had strongly supported the People's Forum, an organization he was very enthusiastic about. "The People's Forum was organized by prominent leftist Albertan William Irvine.