(March 10, 1866 – October 28, 1924) was a farmer and writer inOntario.

[1]The son of Peter

McArthur and Catherine McLennan, natives ofScotland, he was born inEkfrid Township,Canada
Westand was educated at the collegiate andmodel schoolinStrathroyand at theUniversity of
Toronto. McArthur returned to New York in 1904, working as a partner in an advertising agency. In
1907, he publishedThe prodigal, and other poems. He subsequently moved back to Ontario, settling
in Ekfrid in 1908. There he worked a small farm and contributed to theToronto Globeand the
LondonFarmer's Advocate and Home Magazine. He published selected articles from those
publications asIn pastures greenin 1915 andThe red cow and her friendsin 1919. From 1910 to 1912,
he published eight issues of a journal calledOurselves: a Magazine for Cheerful Canadians