Duncan Campbell Scott Quotes
How strange the stars have grown; The presage of extinction glows on their crests And they are beautied with impermanence.
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| Birth: | 2nd August, 1862 |
| Death: | 19th December, 1947 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Profession: | Poet, Writer |
Duncan Campbell Scott was a Canadian bureaucrat, Canadian poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets. Scott was a Canadian lifetime civil servant who served as deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs from 1913 to 1932, and is better known today for advocating the assimilation of Canada’s First Nations peoples in that capacity.
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