DOUGHTY, SIR ARTHUR GEORGE Canadian historian and archivist, was born March 22, 186o, at Maidenhead, England ; educated at Oxford, and Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa. He went to Montreal as a journalist and private secretary, becoming in 19ot joint librarian of the provincial legis lature, and in 1904 Dominion archivist and keeper of the records. He was appointed deputy minister in 1912, in which year he also became joint editor, with Adam Shortt, of the series, Canada and its Provinces. His chief works are Tennyson (1893) ; Siege of Quebec (6 vols., 190 1) ; Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada (1907-18) ; The Cradle of New France (5908) ; The Acadian Exiles 0915); and The Canadian Archives and its Activities (5924).