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Duncan Campbell Scott CMG FRSC (August 2, 1862 – December 19, 1947) was a Canadian civil servant and poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets.
Duncan Campbell Scott, poet, writer, civil servant (born 2 August 1862 in Ottawa, ON; died 19 December 1947 in Ottawa, ON). Scott’s complicated legacy encompasses both his work as an acclaimed poet and his role as a controversial public servant.
Jul 28, 2020 · This resource is intended for educators in Canada who are teaching in English. Duncan Campbell Scott was to run the residential school system at its peak— that is, between 1913 and 1932. Scott was what might be called an extreme assimilationist.
Aug 24, 2022 · In 1982, when Margaret Atwood edited The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English, she praised the “moral jaggedness” and “condensed tragedies” of Duncan Campbell Scott’s poetry and allowed only two writers, living or dead, more pages in her anthology.
Duncan Campbell Scott (born Aug. 2, 1862, Ottawa, Canada West [now Ontario, Can.]—died Dec. 19, 1947, Ottawa) was a Canadian administrator, poet, and short-story writer, best known at the end of the 20th century for advocating the assimilation of Canada’s First Nations peoples.
Learn more about the review of national historic persons connected to the history of residential schools. Duncan Campbell Scott was designated as a national historic person in 1948. The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada reviewed this designation in 2023. The following aspects of Scott’s contributions to Canadian history were ...
Duncan Campbell Scott was a Canadian civil servant, poet and musician who lived his life in Ottawa, Ontario from 1862-1947. Although for many years he was best known as a famous Canadian poet, his legacy in supporting the assimilation of Aboriginal children into European-Canadian culture through the Indian Residential School system is now ...
Jan 14, 2000 · Duncan Campbell Scott, poet and short story-writer, is one of the major Canadian literary figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Scott was a member of a group known as the "Confederation poets" which also included Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman and Archibald Lampman.
Duncan Campbell Scott,1862-1947, was born in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. He was educated in various schools in Ontario and Quebec and at Stanstead College, Quebec. He was a civil servant in the department of Indian affairs (1879-1932).
Duncan Campbell Scott was the deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1913 to 1932 and published nine volumes of poetry from 1893 to 1947. However, he is perhaps best remembered as an advocate of the assimilation of Indigenous peoples.
