Elizabeth Boyd McDougall

     Elizabeth Boyd McDougall was John McDougall's second wife.

    In his book In the Days of the Red River Rebellion John describes a journey east to Toronto shortly after the death of his first wife Abigail. There he stayed with relatives and met many people including the President and Secretary of Missions. They refused his request to go to college for a year and:

they also advised me to look around for a companion, and indeed were very solicitous on my behalf. A personal matter, that even my own father had never presumed to mention or converse with me about, these wise old men were quite insistent on! (251)

   John and Elizabeth Boyd were married in late September started on their journey west by sail boat, a stretch of the voyage which Elizabeth endured better than John as he suffered some sea sickness.

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