Hartland MacDougall | |||
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MacDougall in 1898
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Born |
Montreal, QC, Canada |
March 10, 1876||
Died | April 28, 1947 | (aged 71)||
Position |
Goaltender, Defence |
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Played for | Montreal Victorias | ||
Playing career | 1894–1899 |
Hartland Brydges MacDougall (March 10, 1876 – April 28, 1947) was a Canadian ice hockey player and businessman. MacDougall was generally regarded as one of the most versatile players of the pre-NHL era of the sport. He initially played the position of goaltender but ended his career playing point. After hockey, he became a and was one of the partners of MacDougall, MacDougall and MacTier, a prominent investment firm in Montreal. In 1976 he was made an honoured member in the Canada Sports Hall of Fame.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, MacDougall, was the son of George Campbell MacDougall, Chairman of the , and Grace Brydges, daughter of Charles John Brydges. Between his father and two of his uncles they founded the in 1874. Hartland MacDougall was a first cousin of Brigadier John H. Price, O.B.E., M.C., son of Sir William Price of Quebec City. His aunt, Mrs Hartland St. Clair MacDougall, was the sister of Lady Allan and Mrs Andrew Allan. Hartland was educated at Bishop's College School and Bishops University in Canada.
Hartland MacDougall married Edith Reford, a daughter of Robert Wilson Reford, Sr., and the sister of Robert Wilson Reford who married Elsie Reford, granddaughter of George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen. They were the parents of three sons and two daughters. Their eldest son, Hartland Campbell MacDougall, married Dorothy, the eldest daughter of Lt.-Colonel Herbert Molson (1875–1938) M.C., C.M.G., President of the Molson Brewery. Dorothy (Molson) MacDougall was the niece of Percival Molson, one of Hartland's team-mates on the Montreal Victorias, and the sister of Senator Hartland Molson, who succeeded his father to the Presidency of the Molson Brewery. The MacDougall's second son, Robert Reford MacDougall, married Margaret Meredith Cape, the daughter of Lt.-Colonel Edmund Graves Meredith Cape, whose mother was a first cousin of the already mentioned Frederick Edmund Meredith.