Charles Hill-Tout
| Charles Hill-Tout FRSC | |||||||
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| Born | 1858 | ||||||
| Died | 1944 | ||||||
| Residence | Abbotsford, British Columbia | ||||||
| Occupation | anthropologist | ||||||
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1903.03.15 A letter was read from Mr C. Hill-Tout of British Columbia, asking to be appointed Local Correspondent for that region. Dr C.S. Myers proposed that he be so appointed. This was seconded by Mr Dalton and adopted.
1936.02.25 The following were reappointed Local Correspondents, their appointment dating from 1936: ... Mr C. Hill-Tout (British Columbia) ...
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Charles Hill-Tout (1858–1944) was an amateur anthropologist, active in Canada.
Born in Buckland, Devon, England[1] on 28 September, 1858, he studied theology before emigrating to Canada after graduating from Oxford,[2] becoming acting principal of a private boys' school in Vancouver, Dr. Whetham's College, before starting his own school, Buckland College,[3] then taking land in Abbotsford, 70 miles east of Vancouver in the Fraser Valley.[4]
In 1892, he commenced extensive excavations of the Great Marpole Midden in Vancouver for the Art, Historical, and Scientific Association of Vancouver, stimulating study of other middens in the region.[5] The Great Midden, which dates from 2400-1600 years BP and was a living village until the first of the great smallpox epidemics in the late 17th Century, is today a National Heritage Site of Canada.
His published works include reports collected in Ralph Maud's four volume study on Salish peoples,[6] and his 1907 work The Native Races of British North America: The Far West. During the First World War he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force with 242nd Battalion, CEF. He died June 30th 1944 at Vancouver.[7]
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His published works include reports collected in Ralph Maud's four volume study on Salish peoples,[6] and his 1907 work The Native Races of British North America: The Far West
Oceanic Origin of the Kwakiutl-Nootka and Salish Stocks of British Columbia
by Charles Hill-Tout
The Salish People: Volume II: The Squamish and the Lillooet: 2
by Charles Hill-Tout and Ralph Maud
