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Wilfrid Laurier McDougald fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1922-1938.

Reference:

R4664-0-3-E, MG27-IIIC24

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103334

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Wilfrid Laurier McDougald fonds
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Fonds includes:

1 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1922-1938.

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Extent:

6 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence with prominent Liberals, on the Beauharnois scandal and the creation of a secret fund for Mackenzie King.

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McDougald, Wilfrid Laurier, 1881-1942
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Correspondent: King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950

Willingdon, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Marquess, 1866-1941
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McDougald, Wilfrid Laurier, 1881-1942 : Wilfrid Laurier McDougald, born in 1881 at Alexandria, Ont., received his education from the universities of McGill and Queen's, and practised medicine at Montreal, Que. He was president of Ogdensburg Coal and Towing Co., Chairman of Beauharnois Power Corp. Ltd., and director of Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd., Dominion Steel Corp., British Empire Steel and Canada Steamship Co. He was appointed Chairman of the Montreal Harbour Commission in 1922.

He was called to the Senate in 1926, but resigned in 1932 as a result of the Beauharnois scandal.

See also: The Canadian Directory of Parliament, 1867-1967, 1968.

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General note:

Received in 1976 and 1984 from Joseph Frank of Montreal, Que.
Subject heading:

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Beauharnois Scandal, 1931, 1931-1938

Corruption (in politics) - Canada, 1922-1938

Beauharnois Power Corporation - Records and correspondence, 1922-1938

Charles Bishop - Correspondence, 1922-1938

H.G. Coghill - Correspondence, 1922-1938

G.N. Gordon - Correspondence, 1922-1938

W.A. Gordon - Correspondence, 1922-1938

James G. Gardiner - Correspondence, 1922-1938

A.C. Hardy - Correspondence, 1922-1938

Andrew Haydon - Correspondence, 1922-1938

Scott Haydon - Correspondence, 1922-1938

Camillien Houde - Correspondence, 1922-1938

Ernest Lapointe - Correspondence, 1922-1938

Peter C. Larkin - Correspondence, 1922-1938

E.M. McDonald - Correspondence, 1922-1938

H.M. Marler - Correspondence, 1922-1938

C.L. Mayer - Correspondence, 1922-1938

W.H. Measures - Correspondence, 1922-1938

Gratton O'Leary - Correspondence, 1922-1938

J.H. Spence - Correspondence, 1922-1938

Canada 20th century

Canada 20e siècle
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Private

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MG27-IIIC24
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