Background
Duncan Scott was born on August 2, 1862 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the family of William Scott and Janet Campbell MacCallum.
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Duncan Scott was born on August 2, 1862 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the family of William Scott and Janet Campbell MacCallum.
Duncan was educated at Stanstead Wesleyan College.
In 1879 Scott joined the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs; he reached the highest levels of this agency before retiring in 1932. During this period, Scott firmly supported the assimilationist policies of the Canadian government and advocated a policy of tribal termination, under which the indigenous peoples of Canada were to lose legal recognition and the protections and guarantees of their treaties with the government. He was also responsible for the supervision of Canada’s Residential Schools, a system of off-reservation boarding schools for indigenous children. Scott allowed school staff to use a variety of inhumane punishments to implement and enforce the assimilation of these children.
Scott’s position was characteristic of government administrators of the time, but later complaints about his actions caused them to be reviewed by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, which convened in 1991 and issued a report on the matter in 1996. The Canadian government subsequently issued an apology for exposing to abuse the estimated 100,000 aboriginal students who attended the schools. In 2006 it also offered some $2 billion (Canadian) in class-action reparations to those former students.
Scott produced several volumes of verse from 1893 to 1947. Some of his poems, including “The Onondaga Madonna,” have been frequently anthologized, and his poems often take First Nations customs as their subject. He also published two volumes of stories, In the Village of Viger, which portrays French Canadian life, and The Witching of Elspie.
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1896In 1894 Duncan married a concert violinist Belle Warner Botsford, but she died in 1929. They had a daughter Elizabeth Duncan, who died at the age of 12. In 1931 he married Desiree Elise Aylen.
