(1869-1961), missionary. (Christie A. MacDougall, Christy A. MacDougall) Born near Maxville, probably on her parents’ farm, which was at the western end of the 17th Concession of Indian Lands. Parents: Peter A. MacDougall and his wife Catherine McColl. Peter A. MacDougall, who “followed lumbering and farming,” comes alive with warmth and vividness in T. W. Munro’s biographical sketch and character study of him. In Jan. 1905 Christy Ann MacDougall was home on furlough in Maxville, after six or seven years working as a missionary in India, where she witnessed the recent famine. It may be that she did not return to India. She may have felt the need to remain in Maxville to look after her elderly parents. It appears that she was also at some stage a missionary in China. In the early 1920s Christy Ann and her widowed father left the Maxville area and settled in Ottawa. She is buried in Maxville Cemetery. We may suppose that like her father she was at first a Congregationalist and afterwards belonged to the United Church. Surprisingly, the United Church Archives, custodian of the Congregationalist records, has reported having no information on this missionary, so possibly she had U. S. rather than Canadian missionary sponsorship. She was unmarried.

Campbell, Tannis, & Stewart, MacDougalls, 592-593, 601 * family gravestone, Maxville Cemetery * Peter A. MacDougall: obituary Standard Freeholder 5 Nov. 1932 (QF); Munro (T.W.) 7 Feb. 1941 * Maxville (1991) 633 * 1905 return: Glengarry News 27 Jan. 1905; 20 Years Ago column, Cornwall Freeholder 29 Jan. 1925 * Winter GN 8 Feb. 1995