Charles Hill-Tout was an amateur anthropologist, active in Canada.
Education
Born in Buckland, Devon, England on 28 September, 1858, he studied theology before emigrating to Canada after graduating from Oxford, becoming acting principal of a private boys" school in Vancouver, Doctor Whetham"s College, before starting his own school, Buckland College, then taking land in Abbotsford, 70 miles east of Vancouver in the Fraser Valley.
Career
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. The Great Midden, which dates from 2400-1600 years Boite Postale 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, 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.