Duncan Campbell Scott
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1862 – 1947
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Who was Duncan Campbell Scott?
Duncan Campbell Scott was a Canadian bureaucrat, Canadian poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets.
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 Canada’s First Nations peoples in that capacity.
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- Born
- Aug 2, 1862
Ottawa - Also known as
- Duncan Scott
- Spouses
- Belle Botsford
(1894 - )
- Belle Botsford
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Lived in
- Ottawa
- Died
- Dec 19, 1947
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on July 23, 2013
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