Howard Douglas

Howard Douglas (May 8, 1850 – January 6, 1929) was a Superintendent for Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, councillor for Calgary City Council. Early life Howard Douglas was born in Halton District, Ontario in 1850. He was the son of Thomas Douglas, a farmer, and the oldest of four boys. Howard Douglas spent his boyhood and youth in the east. He married Alice Maud Johnston, the daughter of a ship captain, in Burlington, Ontario on October 11, 1872. Around 1883 Douglas moved west to Manitoba, and later in fall 1883 he arrived in Calgary and worked as a construction bridge foreman for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1885, he resigned from railway service and established a cartage and coal business under the name of Calgary Cartage Company. Douglas was elected as a councillor in 1888 and again in 1891. His wife Alice and their three children, Katie, Thomas and Roy joined him in 1885. In 1890, Alice and Howard's fourth child, Ralph Howard, was born in Calgary.