Arthur R. M. Lower | |
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| Born | Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower 12 August 1889 |
| Died | 7 January 1988 (aged 98) |
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| Discipline | History |
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| Notable students | Ramsay Cook[1] |
| Influenced | Hugh MacLennan |
Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower CC FRSC (12 August 1889 – 7 January 1988) was a Canadian historian and "liberal nationalist" interested in Canadian economic history, particularly the forest trade, and in Canada–US 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.[2]
- ^ Martel, Marcel (2017). "Ramsay Cook : l'historien engagé" [Ramsay Cook: The Militant Historian]. Études Canadiennes (in French) (83): 154. doi:10.4000/eccs.988. ISSN 2429-4667.
- ^ Carl Berger, 1986, pp 112-19