[2] DuPorte was born in 1891 in Nevis,[4] one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean that was then part of the British West Indies.

[3] In 1910, he was awarded a scholarship from the St. Kitts-Nevis Legislative Council,[3] which he used to attend Macdonald College in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

He was renowned at the school for the class known as Zoology 220, for which he maintained high standards, and which many students had to repeat, including future McGill University professors.

[3] In 1924, he became one of thirteen members of the newly established Sigma chapter of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

[12] In 1980, the Société d'entomologie du Québec established a bursary that it awards to one of its student members registered at a university for full-time study.

A plaque in DuPorte's honour is located in the Lyman section of the McGill University Library at the Macdonald Campus.