Ellen Douglas "Dougie"[9] Webber, née MacDonad[2] (October 10, 1926 – April 6, 2003) was a Canadian politician and lawyer.
Webber was born October 10, 1926, in Bruno, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Joseph W. MacDondald, a Charlottetown-based lawyer[10] and Charlotte Hughes.
[9] Webber attended Saint Dunstan's University for a year prior to joining the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) during World War II, where she was stationed at Kitchener and Ottawa, and achieving the rank of corporal.
After 10 months with the CWAC, she was commissioned lieutenant for eight years with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps militia.
[2] Following her election, Webber planned to ask for sidewalks near schools and an access to the MacArthur shopping centre, the hospital bed situation and urban renewal of public housing.
[22] Webber decided to run for re-election to the board for the 1966 Ottawa municipal election, unsure at first at wanting to commit to a longer three-year term.
[23] She ran on a platform of "attraction of industry, more public housing, urban renewal and 'continuation of a bit of harmony at city hall'".
[26] However, a week later she re-entered the race, running on a platform of that "would strive for elimination of red date which... is delaying construction of public housing and discouraging new industry from locating to Ottawa" and would "make every effort to see that any public servants displaced by federal staff cutbacks would be provided with suitable alternate jobs and spared unnecessary hardship".
[7] She faced more legal issues later in the year when she was summoned to provincial court for leaving her vacated house in Manor Park in a derelict condition, and was declared a fire hazard.