Related Descriptions. Virtual International Authority File. Search Elsewhere. George Frederick McDougall. George Frederick. George Frederick Title. Social Networks and Archival Context. Sponsors The Andrew W. We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of cookies, Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Accept and Continue. Campau family. Giving the school a new moniker would be a simple but effective expression of a dedication toward reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.
George McDougall did not live in Airdrie and does not appear to have any obvious ties to the community. The reason an Airdrie-based high school was named after him in the first place is peculiar, considering Rocky View Schools is typically known for naming its schools after local people, places and landmarks. Heloise Lorimer School, W. He warned church and state against separatist tendencies which he felt were supported by the Roman Catholic clergy, or which might be caused by the encroachments of the American free traders.
McDougall died of exertion while hunting buffalo. His body was found after a search and was buried in the Wesley Band cemetery on the property of McDougall Memorial Church , near Morley.
James Ernest Nix. Missionary notices of the Methodist Church of Canada Toronto , 3rd ser. Morris, Treaties of Canada with Indians , — John Maclean, Vanguards of Canada Toronto, , — Nix, Mission among the buffalo ; the labours of the Reverends George M. McDougall in the Canadian Northwest , — Toronto, []. General Bibliography. The citation above shows the format for footnotes and endnotes according to the Chicago manual of style 16th edition.
OK Cancel. He was District Councillor for Flos during- three years, viz. Stephen Bishop, who settled quite early on lot 42, was also District Councillor for the township during Larkin had been the first settler on this lot in , but sold it to his cousin, Mr.
Bishop, and moved to lot 4, near Kempenfeldt, about Before he came to this County he had resided in Kingston, Ontario , where most of his family were born. As he was almost the first settler in Flos, the wolves were particularly troublesome in the early days of his settlement and used to howl about the home of the lonely Pioneer in a terrifying fashion. He emigrated in and settled in Newmarket but removed to Tollendal in John McLean, and his son, Rev. At a later time, he left Barrie, and was for many years a resident of Stroud.
Other early residents of Tollendal were the Sibbalds. John came with his wife and family of small children to Canada in They arrived at Kempenfeldt, in November, when the weather was too rough for the steamer "Colborne" to land at Tollendal, so they had to cross the bay in a small boat to their destination after the storm had abated.
They came from Edinburgh, although Mr. Sibbald was a native of Roxburgh, and his wife a native of Fifeshire, the two having met and married in the Scottish capital.
Sibbald died, Sept. Alexander Sibbald, as we have said, was for some time tne tenant of the Lally sawmill. John Sibbald, his brother, was also for many years a resident of Tollendal. Andrew, another son, of the same family, followed the teaching profession, and in , when Rev.
His father was stationed in Kingston as a non-commissioned officer in the Royal Navy during the War of , and he himself, when a youth, served during the rebellion of in a militia unit, the Royal Foresters.
Later he migrated with his parents to a farm near Barrie, Upper Canada. Though his elementary education was slight, he early learned the many pioneer skills needed in his future mission in the far west.
On 10 Jan. After religious conversion in meetings held by a Methodist lay preacher, Peter White, McDougall became a lay preacher also and offered himself for the ministry. He attended Victoria College, Cobourg, C. He was ordained by the Methodist conference at Belleville, C.
After visits to the missions in the Norway House area, he undertook an exploratory trip into the Saskatchewan valley in He conferred with fellow missionaries and with the Crees, and promised to become resident there the following year.
In he and his family did indeed travel in HBC York boats up the Saskatchewan River, perhaps the first family in the vanguard of Ontario pioneers who settled in Alberta in the s. His immediate task was to reinforce the religious work begun by the English Wesleyan missionary Robert Terrill Rundle in —48 and being continued by Henry Bird Steinhauer and Thomas Woolsey, and to demonstrate to the Indians a way of life based on settlement and agriculture.
On a fertile river bench, McDougall constructed the mission as the nucleus of a model pioneer settlement. With meagre equipment, seed grain and garden seeds were sown and agriculture taught, and homes and auxiliary buildings, a school and a church, were constructed. McDougall made numerous missionary journeys to his nomadic people in remote areas. His son John was pressed into service to reopen a mission which they named Woodville, at the northwest end of Pigeon Lake.
This mission was on an overland trail midway between Edmonton and Rocky Mountain Houses, accessible to both Stoney and Blackfoot tribes from the south. The period from the transfer of the HBC territory in to the acquisition of the land by treaties with the Indians and the entry of the North-West Mounted Police in , was one of distress and uncertainty in the North West.
The buffalo migrated beyond the usual hunting ranges, crops failed, and game animals were visibly diminishing. The long-established authority of the HBC was set aside for a civil government previously unknown. The NorthWest Rebellion of —70 made the procurement of food, goods, and mail service difficult for the missionaries.
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