Charles Hill-Tout (1858–1944) was an ethnologist and folklorist, active in British Columbia, born in Buckland, Devon, England,[1] on 28 September 1858.
Wilson told Hill-Tout about the indigenous Haida people and their totems, which aroused in him an insatiable curiosity.
While there, he was offered another teaching position, but was soon informed about the death of one of his children in England, which prompted him to leave the country to be with his family.
He bought a quarter section of wooded land near Abbotsford and built a log cabin for a summer residence.
[8] In 1978 Ralph Maud assembled four volumes of ethnographic writing by Hill-Tout: Thomson and the Okanagan, the Squamish and the Lillooet, the Mainland Halkomelem, the Sechelt and the South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island.