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W. N. (Walter Noble) Sage

1888–1963

A leading historian of British Columbia and early Canada, he spent decades teaching at the University of British Columbia and helping shape how the province’s past was studied. His books and essays focused on exploration, colonial government, and the growth of the Pacific Northwest.

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Sir George Arthur and His Administration of Upper Canada

Sir George Arthur and His Administration of Upper Canada

by W. N. (Walter Noble) Sage

About the author

Born in 1888, Walter Noble Sage became one of the best-known historians of British Columbia and western Canada. He studied history at Oxford and later built his academic career in Canada, where he became closely associated with the University of British Columbia.

At UBC, he taught for many years and was part of the generation that established history as a serious field of study on the West Coast. His writing often explored the colonial period, the fur trade, and figures such as Sir James Douglas and Alexander Mackenzie, with a strong interest in how British Columbia developed within the wider story of Canada.

Sage died in 1963. He is remembered chiefly for his scholarship on provincial and national history and for his long influence as a teacher, author, and public historian.