Arthur R. M. Lower, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian historian
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Place of Birth: Barrie, Ontario, Canada
About Arthur R. M. Lower
- Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower (August 12, 1889 – January 7, 1988) was a noted Canadian historian and "liberal nationalist" interested in Canadian economic history, particularly the forest trade, and in Canadian-U.S.
- relations.
- He was the most nationalistic of Canadian historians, and highly distrustful of immigrants, Americans and any others outside of what he considered to be the Canadian family.
- The staple theory of Harold Innis influenced his research, much of which focused on the Canadian lumber industry.
- He was also strongly influenced by the ideas of American historian Frederick Jackson Turner regarding the influence of the frontier—The West—on distinctly American characteristics.
- Lower was an outdoorsman who not only loved nature, but emphasized the role of The North in shaping Canada.Lower was born in Barrie, Ontario to a dysfunctional family.
- He studied history at the University of Toronto and Harvard University, where he obtained his doctorate.
- During World War I he served as an officer in the Royal Navy. Lower taught history at Tufts College, Massachusetts, at Harvard and at United College, Winnipeg, where he chaired the Department of History for eighteen years.
- In 1944 he became professor of History at Queen's University, Kingston, a position he held until his retirement in 1959.
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