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Born at Summerside, Prince Edward Island on 19 November 1913, son of Arthur Wellington McDowell (1876-1970) and Melissa Gertrude MacDonald (1880-1967), during the Second World War, he served overseas with the Royal Canadian Signal Corps. He received a BA degree from Dalhousie University (1947) and an MA degree from Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts). He taught at Mount Allison University (?-?) and the University of Alberta (1953-1956) before coming to Brandon College in 1957 where he was a member of the Economics Department and served as its Chair. He wrote the book The Brandon Packers Strike: A Tragedy of Errors (1971). After retirement in 1979, he was Chairman of McKenzie Seeds (1982-1984). He died unmarried at his Brandon home, 42 Almond Crescent, on 20 February 1986. His estate left $175,000 to Brandon University to be used for student scholarships in History, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, and Social Sciences.
The Department of Economics of The University of Alberta: A History by Eric J. Hanson, October 1982.
“MacDowell, Evans quit seed firm,” Brandon Sun, 9 January 1984, page 1.
Obituary, Brandon Sun, 28 February 1986, page 22.
“Bonanza for BU,” Brandon Sun, 29 March 1986, page 2.
“Notice to creditors,” Brandon Sun, 19 April 1986, page 19.
George Ferno MacDowell (1913-1986), WikiTree.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
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