Methodists started coming to Alberta in 1840, when Robert Rundle came to Fort Edmonton.
George McDougall established a school in 1871, to teach English to the children of the Hudson's Bay Company employees, because the most used languages then were French, Gaelic and Cree.
[1] The McDougalls were a family of Methodist missionaries: George and his son John started missions to the native people in Pakan (north east of Edmonton), and Morley (west of Calgary).
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