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Apr 01, 1826 Died on 06 Mar 1910 (aged 83)
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About Francis Mcdougal
- Francis McDougal (April 1826 – March 6, 1910) was a Canadian businessman and mayor of Ottawa from 1885 to 1886.He was born in Lancaster, Upper Canada in 1826 and came to Bytown in the 1840s.
- He worked as clerk in a hardware store and opened his own hardware business in 1851 on Sussex Street.
- He was an alderman from 1869 to 1876 and then from 1881 to 1883.
- During his term as mayor, electric street lights were introduced in Ottawa.
- During the 1890s, he was a director for J.R.
- Booth's Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway.In 1858, McDougal married Amelia McGillis; the couple had three sons.
- One son Donald Joseph later served in the Ontario assembly.He died of pneumonia in Ottawa in 1910, aged 83.
