Background
McDougall was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
McDougall was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
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.
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
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.