Arthur R. M. Lower
Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower (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.
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