Arthur Scaife

Arthur Hodgkin Scaife (c. 1855–1934) was an Australian-born English writer, editor, and insurance broker. Educated in England, he worked as an insurance agent in Constantinople for 18 years before moving to Canada in 1892, settling in the city of Victoria. He became the founding editor of the weekly newspaper The Province. Scaife was the author of two volumes of short stories and a novel which were the first works of fiction to be published in British Columbia. After a short period in Toronto, he moved to England where in 1900 he published two more books, an account of the Second Boer War and a satirical poem. Scaife took up again positions in the insurance field before his death in Chiswick in 1934.