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Doubleday, Page & Company was an American publishing house established in 1897 as Doubleday & McClure Company by Frank Nelson Doubleday and Samuel S. McClure. In 1900, Walter Hines Page joined the company as a partner, and it was renamed Doubleday, Page & Company. Over the years, the company merged with several other publishers. In 1927, it merged with the George H. Doran Company to form Doubleday, Doran and Company. In 1946, the company was renamed Doubleday and Company.

In 1986, Doubleday was sold to Bertelsmann, and in 1998, it became part of Random House. In 2009, Doubleday merged with the Knopf Publishing Group, creating the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Finally, in 2013, Random House and Penguin merged to form Penguin Random House, with Doubleday remaining a part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

N.B. Doucet was a notary public practicing in Montreal in the early 19th century.

Roger Doucet was born on April 21, 1919, in Montreal and died on July 29, 1981, in Montreal. He was a Canadian tenor best known for singing the Canadian national anthem, “O Canada,” on televised games of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Alouettes, and Montreal Expos during the 1970s. He performed a popular bilingual version of the anthem, which began in French and ended in English, in recognition of the two official languages of Canada. In 1980, Doucet was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour.

John Redpath Dougall was born on August 17, 1841, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a journalist, editor, and publisher. He was educated at Montreal High School and McGill University (B.A, 1860 and M.A., 1867). In 1870, he became editor-in-chief of the Montreal Witness, a paper founded by his father John Dougall (1808-1886) and dedicated to the temperance cause and the betterment of conditions of the masses. As a young reporter, he interviewed Abraham Lincoln at the White House in Washington during the Civil War of the United States. In 1871, he was in Paris when the victorious German troops arrived after the Franco-Prussian War. He stayed in this position for sixty-three years. He also published Northern Messenger and World Wide. He was known for his fairness, courtesy, and militant independence that added dignity to the journalistic profession. In 1921, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from McGill University.

He died on September 18, 1934, in Montreal, Quebec.

John Dougall was born on July 8, 1808, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

He was a merchant, journalist, and publisher. He immigrated to Canada in 1826 and, using his ties with Scottish merchants, established with his father James a commission business for the distribution of textiles in Quebec. In Montreal, he opened a book and stationery shop. In the 1840s, Dougall was a director of the Montreal Provident and Savings Bank. His marriage to Elizabeth Redpath, eldest daughter of John Redpath, gave him a commercial partnership with the Redpath family and an important entrée into the English-speaking upper class of Montreal. In 1835, he became an editor of the Canada Temperance Advocate, the organ of the Montreal Temperance Society of which he had been a founding member in 1832. In 1846, he founded the weekly Montreal Witness, becoming a daily in 1860, dedicated to the temperance cause and the betterment of conditions of the masses. In 1870, he left the Montreal Witness in the charge of his son John Redpath Dougall (1841-1934) and he moved to New York City. Here he established the short-lived Daily Witness (failed in 1877) and the New York Weekly Witness which achieved considerable circulation and continued after Dougall’s death.

In 1840, he married Elizabeth Redpath (1819-1883) and they had six daughters and three sons. He died on August 19, 1886, in Flushing, Queens County, New York.