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MacDougall, Alexander Peter
(1843-26 Dec. 1914), sawmill proprietor, one of the founders of Maxville. (Alexander MacDougall, Alex P. MacDougall) Born in the Maxville area, probably on his parents’ farm on Lots 11 and 12 in the 17th Concession of Indian Lands, GC. He was one of twelve children of Peter MacDougall and his wife Christina McEwen, who were both natives of Scotland. See the entry for his brother Duncan Peter MacDougall for the sawmill these brothers operated in Maxville, and for their connection with the founding of Maxville, also for the names of other members of the family noticed in the present dictionary. He married (1) Jane Fisher (d. 1878) (one child), and (2) Christena (Christy) McKinnon (1863-1936), a native of Finch Township, who was the sister of Duncan A. McKinnon the Maxville lumber merchant. She married, as her second husband, the Rev. John D. McEwen.
Glengarry News 8 Jan. 1915 * Campbell, Tannis, & Stewart, MacDougalls, 499-505 (with portrait), 555 * refs. as in the entry for Duncan Peter MacDougall
