John McDougall (July 25, 1805 – February 25, 1870) was a businessman and political figure in

Canada East Canada East (french: links=no, Canada-Est) was the northeastern portion of the United Province of Canada. Lord Durham's Report investigating the causes of the Upper and Lower Canada Rebellions recommended merging those two colonies. The new ...

. He was born in Coldstream, Scotland in 1805 and settled at

Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain ...

around 1833. He owned a general store there and served as mayor from 1855 to 1857. He was president of the Three Rivers Gas Company. He was elected to the

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was the lower house of the legislature for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper C ...

for Drummond in 1851; he ran unsuccessfully in Trois-Rivières in 1858. McDougall served as a director for the North Shore Railway. In 1862 and 1863, he purchased

ironworks An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ''ironworks'' is ''ironworks''. Ironworks succeeded bloomeri ...

at Saint-Maurice and L'Islet. He died in Vieilles-Forges near Trois-Rivières in 1870. His sons became partners in his various businesses. His son

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was a member of the Canadian House of Commons. The former ironworks at Saint-Maurice, Les

Forges du Saint-Maurice The Forges du Saint-Maurice ''("St. Maurice Ironworks")'' was the first successful ironworking industry in New France. At the time of the initial formation of the forges in 1730, the Saint Maurice region near Trois-Rivières had long been known fo ...

, has been designated a

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:McDougall, John 1805 births 1870 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East Mayors of Trois-Rivières Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec Immigrants to Lower Canada