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Author Bio
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508 :
The
North-West Territories
L.S.: By His Excellency the honorable William Macdougall…To John Stoughton Dennis
. 1869?.
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MacDougall, William (1822-1905.)
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1822-1905. Born and educated in Ontario; lawyer and founder of North American; elected to what became federal and provincial legislatures, 1858-1882; one of "Fathers of Confederation"; with Sir George Cartier sent to England to negotiate purchase of Rupert's Land, 1868; appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Rupert's Land and the North West Territories, but turned back at Pembina by Riel's followers, 1869; name sometimes spelled McDougall (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography).
Other authors of Peel 508
- Dennis, John Stoughton elder (1820-1885.)
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