(died 20 Oct. 1934, aged 90), lumberman. (Sandy McDougall) Born at Alexandria, GC. He “spent his early days at logging operations in the Ottawa valley. It was in 1898, when there was excitement over the Klondike gold rush, that he was attracted to the west. In that year, he engaged in contracting on the Crow’s Nest Pass Railway. He operated a sawmill at Fernie, B. C., until 1916 when he transferred operations to the interior of B. C., mainly the Prince George district.” He is described in his obituary as being prominent in the lumbering business in British Columbia for 36 years, and as operating the Fernie Lumber company and the Croydon Lumber company, and as being involved in a lumber company at Shere, B. C., known as the Etter-McDougall company. His retirement from the lumbering industry was about 10 years before he died. In his last years, he divided his time between McBride, B. C., and Edmonton. He died at McBride, but was buried in Edmonton. (three children surviving him) From the dates cited here, it appears that he began the western stage of his life when he was several years into his fifties.

Glengarry News 9 Nov. 1934 (repr. from Edmonton Journal) (QF) * Fernie Lumber Co.: Backtracking with Fernie & District Historical Society (1977) 45