Duncan Campbell Scott

Shelley Hulan (University of Waterloo)

Ed. by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

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Born 2 Aug 1862
Died 19 Dec 1947
Activity 1887-1947

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Born in Canada
Active in Canada

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Canadian poet Duncan Campbell Scott was born in Ottawa, Canada West, in 1862. The son of an English Methodist minister and a mother with Highland Scottish roots, he received a college education, though he could not pursue studies in medicine owing to a lack of funds. In 1879, he took up a clerkship in the Indian Branch of the federal government, a position which his father arranged through his acquaintance with Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. Scott was married in 1894 to an outgoing American named Belle Botsford; the death of their only child, Elizabeth, in 1907 devastated the couple. In 1905 and 1906, he was given the task of helping negotiate the terms of Treaty 9, also called the James Bay Treaty, between the federal government and the Ojibwa and Cree of northern Ontario. Based…

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Citation: Hulan, Shelley. "Duncan Campbell Scott". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 October 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3974, accessed 24 November 2024.]