Background
MacDougall was born in Tiverton, Ontario, moved to Saskatchewan in childhood, then studied dentistry at Toronto"s Ontario Dental College.
MacDougall was born in Tiverton, Ontario, moved to Saskatchewan in childhood, then studied dentistry at Toronto"s Ontario Dental College.
He fought in World War I in the same army unit as fellow House of Commons member John Diefenbaker. Due to injuries sustained in the war, MacDougall was unable to continue dentistry and moved towards other jobs such as a Liberal Party organizer in British Columbia. His first federal election campaign was in 1935 at Vancouver East where he was unsuccessful.
MacDougall was re-elected there in the 1953 election.
MacDougall collapsed from a heart attack in the House of Commons Centre Block building and died on the scene. At the time, MacDougall"s death was blamed on this stress.
MacDougall was part of a stressful parliamentary debate regarding the Transport-Canada Pipeline which resulted in three other Members of Parliament being admitted to hospital.