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Duncan A. McArthur (1885-1943), born in Dutton, Ontario, started out as an archivist, a lawyer and then a fund manager. In 1922, he joined the Department of History at his alma mater, Queen’s University at Kingston, Nova Scotia, as Douglas Professor in Canadian and Colonial History, later serving as Head of Department. A gifted teacher, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Education for Ontario in 1934, and elevated to Minister in 1940, a post he held for three years while representing Simcoe Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal. McArthur reformed and modernised the Ontario education system, and wrote several textbooks himself. He married Floy Lawson in 1920, and the couple had two daughters, Mary and Helen.
