The Salish People: Volume IV. Charles Hill-Tout
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
[12] “Notes on the Skqomic of British Columbia, a Branch of the Great Salish Stock of North America” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 70 (1900) pp. 472–549
[13] “The Origin of the Totemism of the Aborigines of British Columbia” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 2nd series, 7 (1901) Sect. II pp. 3–15
[14] “America: Ethnography” Man 1 (1901) pp. 164–165 [being a summary of the report of the Ethnological Survey of Canada, and an abstract of the paper on the “Mainland Halkomelem”]
[15] “Curious and Interesting Marriage Customs of Some of the Aboriginal Tribes of British Columbia” American Antiquarian 24 (1902) pp. 85–88 [material from the Ethnological Survey reports of 1899 and 1900]
[16] “Communal Houses in British Columbia” American Antiquarian 24(1902) p.107
[17] “Ethnological Studies of the Mainland Halkomelem, a Division of the Salish of British Columbia” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 72 (1902) pp. 355–449
[18] “Earlier Home of the Bella Coola Tribe” American Antiquarian 24 (1902) pp. 403–404 [from Report (1902)]
[19] “Kitchen Middens on the Lower Eraser” American Antiquarian 25 (1903) pp. 180–182 [material from the British Association 1902 report]
[20] “Totemism: A Consideration of its Origin and Import” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 2nd series, 9 (1903) Sect. II pp. 61–99
[21] “Indians and Their Traditions” in Vancouver, British Columbia: The Sunset Doorway of the Dominion (Vancouver Tourist Association 1903) n.p.
[22] “Report on the Ethnology of the Siciatl of British Columbia, a Coast Division of the Salish Stock” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 34 (January-July 1904) pp. 20–91
[23] “Ethnological Report on the Stseelis and Skaulits Tribes of the Halkomelem Division of the Salish of British Columbia” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 34 (July-December 1904) pp. 311–376
[24] “Report on the Ethnology of the Stlatlumh of British Columbia” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 35 (January-June 1905) pp. 126–218
[25] “Some Features of the Language and Culture of the Salish” American Anthropologist n.s. 7 (1905) pp. 674–687
[26] “The Salish Tribes of the Coast and Lower Eraser Delta” in Annual Archaeological Report 1905 ["being part of Appendix to the Report of The Minister of Education Ontario"] (Toronto 1906) pp. 225–235 [= item 10 of “Ethnology of Canada and Newfoundland” edited by Franz Boas]
[27] “Report on the Ethnology of the South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island, British Columbia” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 37 (July-December 1907) pp. 306–374
[28] The Native Races of the British Empire. British North America. I. The Far West, the Home of the Salish and Dene London: Archibald Constable and Company 1907 (263 pp., 33 pi.) [Reviewed by A. F. Chamberlain in American Anthropologist n.s. 9 (1907) pp. 602–604]
[29] “Report on the Ethnology of the Okanaken of British Columbia, an Interior Division of the Salish Stock" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 41 (January-June 1911) pp. 130–161
[30] “Neolithic Man in British Columbia” [abstract only] American Journal of Archaeology 16 (1912) pp. 102–103
[31] “Government Aid to Agriculture” Papers and Proceedings of the Canadian Political Science Association 1 (1913) pp. 20–26
[32] “The Native Races of British Columbia” chapter XVIII of eds. F. W. Howay and E. O. S. Scholefield British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present Vol. I (Vancouver 1914) pp. 573–591 [same material as his book of 1907]
[33] “Our Forerunners in British Columbia” Journal [of the Art, Historical and Scientific Association]