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Lorne and Edith Pierce collection. Duncan Campbell Scott sous-fonds
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1889-1947 (Creation)
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- Scott, Duncan Campbell
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0.18 m of textual records
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Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862 December 19, 1947) was a Canadian bureaucrat, Canadian poet and prose writer. Scott was a Canadian lifetime civil servant who served as deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1913 to 1932, and is better known today for advocating the assimilation of Canadas First Nations peoples in that capacity.
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Rev. William Scott and Janet MacCallum. He was educated at Stanstead Wesleyan College. Prior to taking up his position as head of the Department of Indian Affairs, in 1905 Scott was one of the Treaty Commissioners sent to negotiate Treaty No. 9 in Northern Ontario. Scott was Head of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1913 to 1932.
Scott was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899 and served as its president from 1921 to 1922. The Society awarded him the second-ever Lorne Pierce Medal in 1927 for his contributions to Canadian literature. In 1934 he was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He also received honorary degrees from the University of Toronto (Doctor of Letters in 1922) and Queen's University (Doctor of Laws in 1939).
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The sous-fonds consists of correspondence, poetry, prose, biographical articles, critical commentaries and personal documents.
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Gift of Lorne and Edith Pierce
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- English
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2001.1
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