Walter Duffett
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Walter Duffett was born in Toronto in 1910, and attended public and high school in Galt, Ontario. He pursued a bachelor of commerce degree at the University of Toronto and a master of science degree in economics at the London School of Economics.
After working as a security analyst in the Investment Department of Sun Life in Montréal and in London, he joined the Wartime Prices and Trade Board in 1942. He transferred to the Research Department of the Bank of Canada in 1944, and 10 years later was appointed Director of the Economics and Research Branch at the Department of Labour.
He was appointed Dominion Statistician in 1957, and held that title until his retirement, in May 1972. He was technically Canada's first "Chief Statistician" when the Dominion Bureau of Statistics was renamed Statistics Canada. After his retirement, he became Vice-President of the Conference Board of Canada. He was elected President of the Inter-American Statistical Institute in 1980. He died in 1982.
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https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-20-0001/ch/ch01-eng.htm
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