Duncan Campbell Scott

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947), born in Ottawa, the son of a Methodist minister, entered the Department of Indian Affairs at seventeen, without a university education, and spent his entire career there. Deputy Superintendent General from 1913 to 1932, he ran the residential schools for Indigenous children; in 1920 he made schooling compulsory for children aged seven to fifteen and told a parliamentary committee that he wanted to put an end to the Indian problem. A poet of the Confederation group, encouraged by his friend Archibald Lampman, whose work he would edit, he was president of the Royal Society of Canada in 1921.

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• PoetryLabor and the AngelDuncan Campbell Scott · 1898LiteraturePublic domain