(24 June 1884-9 Aug. 1947), librarian and political wife. (Ada C. Johnston, Ada Johnston) Born at or near Maxville, GC. Parents: Peter MacDougall and his wife Ellen Robertson. This couple lived on lots 11 & 12, of the 17th Concession of Indian Lands. Peter (d. 1903) had a flour-milling business in Maxville; his wife Ellen, who long outlived her husband to die in 1950, several years after her daughter Ada, was the daughter of a reeve of Roxborough Township. Ada MacDougall attended Alexandria High School and the Normal School at Regina. Also, she worked as librarian and as secretary to the principal of the Normal School. On 20 June 1913 she married George Norman Johnston, who was later the speaker of the Alberta Legislature. Over many years, she shared his life in farming, politics and his wide range of public activities. She died at the Johnstons’ farm home, at Loyalist, Alta., and was buried not far away, at the Lake Road Cemetery, at Consort, Alta. The Johnstons had no children.

     Ada C. Johnston’s sister Violet MacDougall (Mrs J.G. Pollard was married to a governor of Virginia. Another sister, Margaret MacDougall (Mrs Charles W. Ross) was an alderman on the Reginia City Council. Their aunt Jane MacDougall, who married the Rev. William Peacock, was the mother of Sir Edward Peacock. Their uncle Duncan Peter MacDougall was the father of Professor Frank MacDougall. Their aunt Catherine MacDougall, who married John Kennedy, was the mother of John Wilfred Kennedy, MP, and of Peter Kennedy, the “Father of the Shelter Belts.”

The Consort Enterprise (Consort, Alta.), 21 Aug. 1947 & (largely the same text) Glengarry News 22 Aug. 1947 * Campbell (1990), 499, 505, 588-591 * Maxville, 631 * sources as for her husband’s life