Memorable Manitobans: Douglas Doyle MacKay (1900-1938)

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Douglas Doyle MacKay
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Born at Woodstock, Ontario in 1900, he was educated at Woodstock Collegiate and Columbia University (1923). He served in public relations for several firms, becoming publicity director for the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Canadian Committee. He edited the The Beaver from 1933 to 1938. He died in a plane crash in the United States in 1938. He wrote The Honourable Company (1936).

Father of Shane MacKay.

Sources:

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

We thank Douglas MacKay for additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 26 December 2021

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