Unknown – http://www.history.alberta.ca/victoria/150thanniversary/images/george_mcdougall_256.jpg, (Public Domain), assessed 23 May 2015, unigift.

Internment: 10 February 1876, Morleyville.

Summary of article.

Rev George Millward McDougall had gone on a hunting trip with his son and nephew, Moses to acquire some meat. They made their way about 40 miles into the plains and 10 miles from the Mounted Police in Elbow. On the 24th, he and his son ran and killed some buffalo. Cleaning and skinning took until dust, which time they set back to their camp 5 miles away. His son started to ride a head of him to camp to check on Moses. Rev. McDougall never arrived back at camp that night. On the 29th of January his horse arrived back at the camp. A search by family and friends started and on the 5th of February his body was found about 7 miles from Elbow. Some hunters from Elbow report that they saw a man who resembled Rev. McDougall on the 25th of January but they did not know he was missing and thought he was hunting. Opinion is that Rev. McDougall became snow-blind on 25th of January, because the weather had become dreadful.

“Rev. John McDougall's Father died on Prairie Not Far from Calgary,” “The Calgary Daily Herald,” Tuesday, January 16, 1917, pg 5, Our Future Our Past, http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/np_page2.asp?code=n4pp0184.jpg, assessed 23 May 2015, unigift.

Additional Information:

Rev. George Millward McDougall father was David McDougall (c. 1788, Glasgow, Scotland – 4 Apr 1870, Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada), he was non-commissioned officer in the Royal Navy during the War of 1812 in Lake Champlain, Lake Ontario Canada.

Besides his sister Elizabeth Ann McDougall Boyd he had a brother, David McDougall (1826, Ontario, Canada – 11 Jun 1872, Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada) who married Mary Ann Chantler (26 Nov 1828, Findon, Sussex, England – 10 Jan 1923, Fairview, Yale, British Columbia). They had nine known children (three males & six females; one son was David “Moses” who was the nephew that went hunting with Rev. George McDougall when he died). Mary Ann Chantler was the sister of Rev. George Millward McDougall wife and after David McDougall death she married James Titmus. No other family members are known by this researcher.

From the “100 Anniversary” pamphlet of Reverend George McDougall death. Monument at his death location which is now Beddlington area, of Center Street North, Calgary. January 25, 1976. Nose Creek Historical Society. The Death of the Reverend George McDougall, pg 71, “100 years of Nose Creek Valley history” by Wilk, Stephen , Calgary, Alberta: Nose Creek Historical Society, 1997 (our roots nos racines) http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=322639, assessed 20 Jul 2015, unigift.


"Our Lord had called him home; his journey's end, in the foothills of Nose Creek in the shade of the towering Rockies beyond the sunset."

By C. Redvers Perry, 1976 (Nose Creek Historical Society. The Death of the Reverend George McDougall, pg 69, “100 years of Nose Creek Valley history” by Wilk, Stephen , Calgary, Alberta: Nose Creek Historical Society, 1997 (our roots nos racines) http://www.ourroots.ca/e/page.aspx?id=322639, assessed 20 Jul 2015, unigift.)