Lecture tour for the Archaeological Institute of America, Western Circuit, March 21 to April 17, 1913 in San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle. Subject: “The Hieroglyphic Writings of the Ancients” or “Have We Found the Source of the Phoenician Alphabet?” (Illustrated with stereopticon).
(e) Lecture in Edmonton, reported in Edmonton Journal 1 July 1913.
(f) Read paper at Ottawa meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association 5 September 1913 on “Government Aid to Agriculture” (see item #31 below).
(g) Newspaper interview 24 May 1914 Daily News-Advertizer “Totems and Their Significance.”
(h) Contribution to a international symposium on Totemism announced in Anthropos 9 (1914) p. 287 – cancelled because of the war.
(i) March 1915, lecture to Vancouver Art, Historical and Scientific Society on “Totemism and Totem Poles.”
(j) Delivered the “Popular Lecture” at the meeting of the Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa, May 1915, “The Antiquity of Man in the Light of Modern Discoveries.”
(k) January 1916, lecture to the Art, Historical and Scientific Society (Vancouver) on “Romance of Archaeology.”
(l) Elected Vice-President of Section II of the Royal Society of Canada at May 1921 meeting (having been a member since June 1913), and gave an address: “The Phylogeny of Man from a New Angle,” published in the Transactions (item #35 below).
(m) Presided at Section II of the Royal Society of Canada May 1922 meeting; elected President.
(n) Two lectures at the Progressive Business Men’s Club, Portland, Oregon, 10,31 May 1923.
(o) Presidential Address, Section II of the Royal Society of Canada, May 1923, Ottawa; published in Transactions (item #36 below).
(p) “New Trends in Anthropology” — address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, 7 August 1924; reported in Science 60 (1924) p. xii of Supplement.
(q) Series of articles in the New Westminster Columbian [not checked] is apparently the material from which Hill-Tout compiled his book, Man and his Ancestors in the Light of Organic Evolution (1925-item #37 below).
Hill-Tout at Excavation of a Cairn near Harmon Mills, 1932.
“With the advent of the Great War, several of the Professor’s sons went overseas with the Canadian forces, and he himself enlisted … and managed to get as far as Montreal, when his age was discovered and he was not permitted to go on further. So he returned to Vancouver and the farm, which he ran during the war.”23
1926–1944
“I am a Vancouverite myself. I contribute to your revenues both directly and indirectly. I have seen this city, of which we are all so justly proud, grow from a village to her present leading position. My faith in her future has never wavered. I believe she is destined to play a great and important part in the future of this province and the Dominion" (Hill-Tout quoted in the University of British Columbia typescript).
In a six-year period Hill-Tout contributed nine articles to the Vancouver Museum and Art Notes (items #38, 39, 40, 41, 42,43,44,45, 48 below). He became a Director of the Art, Historical and Scientific Society in December 1928, an Honorary Life Member in January 1931, President from 1934–44.
Hill-Tout participated in two archaeological digs: (1) the opening of a cairn near Harrison Mills in 1932, reported with photograph in a pamphlet produced for the Fifth Pacific Science Congress in Vancouver, June 1933 (item #49); and (2) at a site in the Middle Columbia River, reported in the Wenatchee Daily World 8 June 1934, when Hill-Tout also gave a talk to the Columbia River Archaeological Society; the finds are reported in Hill-Tout’s articles for the Illustrated London News and the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada (items #50,51 below).
He continued to pursue his aim of popularizing scientific ideas, in the Illustrated London News (items #46, 50, 52 below) and in a series of articles for the Vancouver Morning Star during 1938–39 (manuscripts and clippings in Vancouver Museum).
In 1935 his name was proposed to the University of British Columbia Senate for LLD (Hon.), but the suggestion was not acted upon.24
“Apart from his contributions to the scientific and literary life of this community, Professor Hill-Tout has taken an active part in the social life of the city, and his extraordinary vitality, which has been apparent even since he has reached four-score years, and his keen interest in people and affairs of the day, have taken him into many walks of life. Of quite recent years he has been, and still is, the very popular president of The Happier Old Age Society, which has a membership of beween five and six hundred; and presiding at its meetings he has been at his wittiest" (University of British Columbia typescript).
Hill-Tout remarried in March 1941,25 his first wife having died in October 1931. He died in Vancouver on 30 June 1944, aged eighty-five.
With Rev. Dr. Raley at the old Vancouver Museum, Main and Hastings.
[1] “The Study of Language” Proceedings of the Canadian Institute 5 (1886–7) pp. 165–173
[2] “Some Psychical Phenomena Bearing Upon the Question of Spirit Control” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 11 (1895) pp. 309–316
[3] “Later Prehistoric Man in British Columbia” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 2nd series, 1 (1895) Sect. II pp. 103–122
[4] “Notes on the Cosmogony and History of the Squamish Indians of British Columbia” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 2nd series, 3 (1897) Sect. II pp. 85–90
[5] “Oceanic Origin of the Kwakiutl-Nootka and Salish Stocks of British Columbia and Fundamental Unity of Same, with Additional Notes on the Dene” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 2nd series, 4 (1898) Section II pp. 187–231
[6] “Haida Stories and Beliefs” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 68 (1898) pp. 700–708
[7] Letter on Salish dialect, American Anthropologist 11 (November 1898)p.346
[8] “‘Sqaktktquaclt,’ or the Benign-faced, the Oannes of the Ntlaka-pamuq, British Columbia” Folk-lore 10 (June 1899) pp. 195–216
[9] “Notes on the Ntlakapamuq of British Columbia, a Branch of the Great Salish Stock of North America” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 69 (1899) pp. 500–584
[10] “Short Review and Notes on the Second Volume of the Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History” American Antiquarian 21 (1899) pp. 146–149 [on Boas'Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians]
[11] “Notes on the Prehistoric Races of British Columbia and their Monuments” British Columbia Mining Record (Christmas Supplement, 1899) pp. 6–23
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