(or McDougald,) (died 27 Dec. 1915, aged 74), businessman. The surname has been found as McDougald in GC-area sources, but he himself at least in the United States was known by and used McDougall. Born in the 4th Concession of Kenyon Township, GC. He followed lumbering in his earlier years in the Haliburton and Bobcaygeon regions of Ontario, and having prospered, was wiped out financially by the wreck of shipping on the Great Lakes, 1881. Next, after a period in Winnipeg which enabled him to recover somewhat financially, he came to the present State of Washington. “He engaged extensively in lumbering operations on the Pacific coast and became very wealthy, owning much property in Seattle, as well as in Vancouver and Victoria, B. C. and gold mines in Alaska.” He was regarded as the founder of Orillia, Wash., where he lived south of Seattle. His various business interests included farming, mining and banking. Besides the places mentioned, he had business involvements in the Yukon. His wife is named as Mary McRae–the mother (assuming he was married only once) of his two daughters.

     One of his charities was “the erection and endowment of a convent for the Carmelite nuns, where homeless girls without regard to race or religion were taken care of.” At the time of his death, his daughter Annie Albinus (or Albans) McDougall (1 March 1875-17 July 1933) (Mother Cyril in the Carmelite Order) was mother superior of the convent. “Mr. McDougald also presented another order with a site for a convent.” Roman Catholic. He died in Seattle. His wife predeceased him by about a year.(two children) He was the first cousin of John A. McDougald of Alexandria and Cornwall. His obituaries in the Cornwall Freeholder and Glengarry News mentioned that word of his death had come to his relative Mrs John McMartin, and they were presumably based on her information.

     On his death, he left, besides life insurance policies, property in the State of Washington worth about $50,000, the Monteceto Ranch near Ramona in San Diego County, Calif. (though the ranch was said never to have made a profit), and property in British Columbia, but the value of his Alaska interests seems by this time to have shrunk to nothing. He was certainly a man of substance, though the GC-area obituarist goes too far in saying he was “very wealthy.” However, public estimation seems to have supported this estimate, for the Seattle obituarists said his friends considered him a millionaire. The settlement of his estate was complicated by his failure to make any provision in his will for the bestowal of his property in the State of Washington, with the unassigned property finally being evenly divided between his two daughters.

Seattle Times & Seattle Post-Intelligencer (portrait) both 28 Dec. 1915, Cornwall Freeholder 30 Dec. 1915 (QF), Glengarry News 7 Jan. 1916 * St. Finnan’s CRNI, III, 557 (probably he is one of the children named here) * Puget Sound Regional Archives, of State of Washington: King County Probate Court Case No. 19533, and articles of incorporation, dated 10 Feb. 1909, for the Carmelite Monastery of Seattle * Archdiocese of Seattle Archives: Women’s Religious Record group (RG 900), Discalced Carmelites: Histories, Clippings (includes obituaries of his dau. Miss Rosemary McDougall, b. at Fenelon Falls, Ont., 4 Oct. 1873, d. in Seattle 17 July 1954)