John Chantler McDougall (1842–1917) was a missionary, civil servant and published author in Alberta, Canada.
He moved west with his father George Millward McDougall to the boreal forest trading post of Norway House in 1860.
[3] At the time of his death in 1917, he was working in Calgary enforcing Prohibition, a cause he fully endorsed.
A newspaper described him as "a Methodist, but broadly Christian, independent and radical in politics, an intense democrat, and aggressive and liberal in all his views.
"[4] The People's Forum was organized by prominent leftist Albertan William Irvine.