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A hundred years ago | Canadian industrial magnate in Madras

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A hundred years ago | Canadian industrial magnate in Madras

Mr. Duncan J. McDougald, a Canadian Industrial magnate, Director of the Canadian National Railways, the Canadian Government Merchant Marine and director of several other important Canadian enterprises and a prominent financier of Toronto, arrived in Madras this morning. Mr.

McDougald is now on a pleasure trip round the world. He left Canada in September and has already toured in Japan, China and the Malay States. While in India, he will take the opportunity of studying the conditions of Indian railways. In the course of a talk with a representative of the Associated Press on his arrival this morning Mr.

McDougald said that he was very much impressed with the generous hospitality and courtesy he received from the officials of the Indian railways. The Canadian National Railways of which he was a director ran length of twenty-four thousand miles in Canada and the United States of America. Mr.