Charles Hill-Tout

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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