After high school, he earned his BA at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and then returned to teach at Pickering.
While this work was primarily interested in British inefficiencies that contributed to the loss of the American Colonies, it did raise the issue of how Quakers were forced to pay the church tax that supported the Presbyterian clergy.
[4] During his time at Western, he published many other volumes as listed below, and was accepted as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada.
He and others worked persistently for re-unification and their goal was realized in 1955 when the major factions held a joint Yearly Meeting.
[1] Dorland expressed his pacificism in many other leadership roles; for example, in cooperation with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, "he helped lead a concerted campaign against cadet training in Canada's schools as well as against militarism in school textbooks"[1] After his death on June 26, 1979, his library formed the nucleus of the Quaker Library and Archives of Canada at Pickering College in Newmarket, and its quarters were named the Arthur Garratt Dorland Reference Library.