SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE
1924

         DUGALD C. MCNAB.  

		Dugald C. McNab, Deputy Minister of Railways and Telephones for the
province of Saskatchewan, was born in Renfrew county, Ontario, on
the 19th of April, 1863. His father, J. D. McNab, was born on the Island
of Malta and came to Ontario, where he followed the occupation of a
miller all of his active life. There he met and married Janet Parkhurst,
a native of Lanark county, Ontario.  He was a well educated man and
a great reader, throughout his life taking an active interest in current
events and public affairs. His political views were those of the Liberal
party. Both he and his wife were consistent members of the Presbyte-
rian church. They were the parents of nine children, of whom the sub-
ject of this review is the only survivor.
		After obtaining his education in the public schools of his native
county Dugald C. McNab taught school for a short time in Manitoba.
Later he spent a considerable period in the service of the government at
Ottawa, as homestead inspector.  His first acquaintance with western
Canada was made in 1883, when he came out as far as Manitoba, but he
did not come to Regina until 1908, when his work in the rural branch of
the government telephone department brought him to this district.  In
1912 he severed this connection to become Deputy Minister of Railways
and Telephones for Saskatchewan, a post he has since filled with ability
and much credit to himself. He now has from six to seven hundred men
in his department, working under his direction and is responsible for a
very important branch of the provincial government's service.
		Mr. NcNab has never married. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, having
attained the fourteenth degree in that order. In his youth he partici-
pated in all the athletic events and sports and now is very fond of golf,
which he usually plays at the Regina Country Club, of which he is a
member. Few men have had Mr. McNab's opportunity of watching the
development of the Canadian west, for he dates his associations with the
region back forty years. These four decades have witnesses an almost
magical transformation of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories thai
would not have been possible in an age when the means of communication
and transportation were less highly developed.  In his work with thE
railways and telephones Mr. McNab has had no inconsiderable personal
share in bringing about this tremendous development and is rightly en
titled to his position among the men who are ranked as the builders of
western Canada.


         
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