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Robert Law McDougall fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1942-1945.

Reference:

R10755-0-2-E

Type of material:

Textual material, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

203948

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Robert Law McDougall fonds
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Date(s):

1942-1945.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

4 cm of textual records.
1 sketch pencil.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of the personal wartime correspondence, from 23 August 1942 to 26 August 1945, of Robert Law McDougall detailing his experiences as an officer with The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada while in England, Sicily, Italy and Northwest Europe. Included is a pencil sketch by another officer, Dunc Manson, showing McDougall at the Casualty Clearing Station in December 1942.

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McDougall, Robert L., 1918-2000

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McDougall, Robert L., 1918-2000 : Robert Law McDougall was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia in 1918. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1939 and began teaching at the Chilliwack High School. Enlisting with the Canadian Officer Training Corps, he was commissioned with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, before going overseas in July 1942. As an officer with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada (part of 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division), he took part in the invasion of Sicily in July 1943. Wounded in action on 25 July 1943, he was hospitalized at the 95th Canadian General Hospital in North Africa. He rejoined the Seaforth Highlanders early in 1944, and remained with the battalion throughout the fighting in Italy and its move to North-West Europe to participate in the final drive into Germany. He was discharged in October 1945. For his wartime services, he was awarded a Mention in Despatches, 9 March 1946.

Postwar, Robert Law McDougall returned to teaching, pioneering the teaching of Canadian literature, first at the University of Toronto, and later at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he was the founder and director of the Institute of Canadian Studies. Asked in 1960 to write the official history of the Seaforth Highlanders, family commitments prevented him from completing this volume (subsequently written by R.H. Roy as "The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 1919-1965"). On his retirement in 1985, Robert Law McDougall took up the Seaforth Highlander manuscript again to write "A Narrative of War" (Golden Dog Press: 1996). Robert Law McDougall died in Ottawa in August 2000.

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Pencil sketch is part of textual material.

Source:

Private

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2003-00045-3
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