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MACDOUGALL, ALEXANDER WILLIAM (1889-1965)

MACDOUGALL, ALEXANDER WILLIAM, stipendiary magistrate and local historian; b. Hexham, 5 Sep 1889, s/o Hugh Macdougall and Margaret Cameron; m. 1917, Elizabeth Jane Stothart, d/o William J. Stothart and Mary Cameron, of Chatham; d. there, 1 Mar 1965.

As a child Alexander W. Macdougall attended the school at Little Branch, and when he was a young man he served as a lieutenant in the 73rd Battalion of militia. Until he was past fifty he was a farmer and stipendiary magistrate at Black River. For a number of years he occupied a seat on the County Council and worked diligently to get a community hall for Black River and have the Miramichi Rural High School built at Bayside. He was an elder of St Stephen's United Church and a member of the church choir.

In the 1930s Macdougall collaborated with Louise Manny in the publication of a series of sketches in the Union Advocate on the history of Black River. He was also the author of a paper on the early history of the Black River Presbyterian Church which was published in the Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society. In 1959 he served with Louise Manny and Dr William Prince on the committee which organized the Miramichi Historical Society.

In 1941 Macdougall and his family moved to Chatham, where he was employed by the W. S. Loggie Co., and later by the E. S. Sticklen Co., and continued to be active in community affairs. He and his wife, Elizabeth J. Stothart, had four children who lived to adulthood, the youngest of whom, Margaret J. Macdougall, was a member of faculty of the University of New Brunswick in in the 1970s and 80s in the field of business education.

Sources

[b/d] Macdougall family data [m] World 11 Apr 1917 / Bird; Commercial World 24 Dec 1959; Macdougall

Remarques

A second edition of Black River and its First Settlers, by A. W. Macdougall (ed. by W. D. Hamilton and Margaret J. Macdougall) was published in 2010.


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