Duggan, Henry David
(died 10 Sept. 1988, aged 86 or 87), Bell Canada employee. (Henry D. Duggan) Parents: John Duggan and his wife Blanche Goggan. Henry David Duggan attended Alexandria High School and Ste-Thérèse College, Ste-Thérèse, Que. For a short time in his earlier years he taught school in Saskatchewan and in Montreal. He took the teaching position in Saskatchewan when it became available while he was working in the West on a harvest excursion. Having joined the engineering division of Bell Telephone (later Bell Canada), he achieved the rank of right-of-way superintendent, and was involved in building Bell lines from Montreal to Toronto, which crossed central GC (3rd and 4th Concession of Kenyon). He took part in similar work connecting Quebec City and Montreal and in the construction of the DEW Line in 1957. His fluency in French was useful in his employment with Bell Canada. He was reeve of Alexandria, was a resident of Montreal for many years, and had a GC summer home at South Lancaster. In politics he was a Conservative. He died at Chateau Gardens, Lancaster. He was married to Isabel Routhier. See also D. J. Dolan.
Glengarry News 14 Sept. 1988 (portrait) and (by Angus H. McDonell) GN 21 Sept. 1988
