Don McDougall

Background

McDougall was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Education

He graduated from Saint Dunstan"s University with a bachelor"s degree, and earned his Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.

Career

He served as president of the Labatt Brewing Company, and led the group that successfully lobbied for a Major League Baseball expansion team team, the Toronto Blue Jays. Heworked in several managerial positions for the Labatt Brewing Company, before being named the company"s president in 1973. One of his tasks as president was to secure a Major League Baseball franchise for the brewery and the city of Toronto.

He was part of the team that eventually brought the Toronto Blue Jays into existence in 1976, and was the club"s founding director

Achievements

• In 2002, McDougall was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2008, the University of Prince Edward Island named a new building after McDougall and his wife, Marion, to honour their commitment to higher learning and philanthropic efforts. In 2009, he was inducted into the London Business Hall of Fame. In 2014, the University of Prince Edward Island installed McDougall as Chancellor. In 2014, he is a member of the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus Advisory Board.

Membership

He resigned in 1980 to run for office in the federal elections as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. In 2014, he is a member of the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus Advisory Board.

Connections

rival:

San Francisco Giants