Douglas Fallacies: A Critique of Social Credit - Arthur Melville Goulding

Biography

Dr. Arthur Melville Goulding (1889-1969)

Arthur Melville Goulding was born to a well-off family on 12 January 1889, his father and mother being William Goulding & Florence Julia Fletcher in Ontario. The 1901 census lists his household consisting of himself, his father William (52), George (14), Arthur (12), Dorothy (10) and two other ladies labelled as “Domestic,” suggesting that the family had people who did work around the house: Susan Clark (39) and Sarah Henderson (37). The census also lists his family as belonging to the Church of England.

From a young age, Arthur was pushed to become a doctor by his father. Due to this, Arthur became estranged from his family and grew up with his aunt instead, who supposedly paid for his education. Arthur attended the Lakefield Preparatory School and Ridley College, later attending the University of Toronto.

While at the University of Toronto, Arthur took History and English, graduating in 1910 with a Bachelor of Arts. During his time at the University of Toronto, Arthur was involved in a variety of clubs. These clubs included the Historical Club and the Letters Club. He also was involved in fencing, winning the championship of 1907.

After his studies at the University of Toronto, Arthur pursued further education at Harvard. Initially, the plan was to adventure into the scene of Economics, but sure enough, he became a doctor. Soon after enrolling at Harvard, the first world war broke out in 1914, and plans completely changed. Arthur yearned to help in the fight in Europe.

Arthur first looked to joining the Canadian Field Artillery as he was a fit and tall individual, but soon looked to “higher” possibilities. Arthur soon enrolled in the Curtiss Flying School and became a pilot. The University of Toronto yearbook from 1916 lists Arthur being on active duty along with quite a few other alumni of the university. He completed his training on 6 October 1916, and on the 13th, he was appointed second lieutenant.

Before his training was finished, however, Arthur married Dorothy Massey (b.April 1898) on 27 September 1916 in York, Ontario. Dorothy was from a very significant Ontario family – a family that developed a way to pasteurize milk in the tuberculosis and typhoid fever scene– and would play a large part in the Ontario scene later on in her life. She had a formal education and studied stage design in Vienna, Austria. As a wedding gift to the couple, Dorothy’s parents built a house for them in the area of Dentonia Park. This is where the couple raised their future family and became involved in the arts.

From there, Arthur was posted at other places in Europe, such as France, in the No. 21 Squadron. Upon being posted, he had the unfortunate realization that he was susceptible to illness and fainting at high altitudes, so his time within the flying corps was limited. He submitted his resignation on 21 September 1916 and was considered “invalidated and discharged.”

Draft records from the First World War also give us a sense of who Arthur was. His registration card from 4 June 1917 lists him as a second lieutenant. It also tells us that he lived in Brookline City, Massachusetts, when attending Harvard as a medical student. By this time, he already had two years of military service. He was also said to be about 6 feet tall, slender, with grey eyes and brown hair.

Unfortunately, due to a lack of documents, his track in the military is blurry, but he did belong to four different divisions during the First World War. Overall, he served 1.5 years in the Royal Flying Corps, 3.5 years in the QOR militia (Queen's Own Rifles), two years in the Territorial Army, and spent some time in the CAMC (Canadian Army Medical Corps). There is no other information concerning when he was discharged from each division, but his medical records from the time he was with the forces suggest that he was fully demobilized before the end of the First World War.

The various other career paths Arthur took within his lifetime was working at the University of Toronto as a “Clinician in Medicine” beginning in 1920, but also listed as a clinician for sick children (pediatrics) and optometrist in Toronto. In 1925 he was also listed as a fellow in biochemistry, later being listed as an assistant in 1927-1928. Overall he was involved in the medicine and clinical medicine faculty at the University of Toronto.

Besides Arthur’s career in medicine, he also had a home life. From 1917-1923 Arthur and Dorothy welcomed four girls into their family. Their first daughter, Helen, was born in 1917 and was later known as Helen Goulding Lloyd. Their second daughter, Ann, was born on 4 April 1919, and she would later be known as Ann Goulding Coombs. On 16 September 1921, Arthur and Dorothy welcomed another child into their family. They named her Susan Denton Goulding, later bearing the last name of Fletcher. Two years later, on 26 November 1923, the family welcomed their final child into the family: Dorothy Jane Goulding, later going by the last name of Needles.

While Arthur worked at the University of Toronto, his wife, Dorothy, raised the children and encouraged them to be creative and explore passions within the arts. The children acted out fairy tales and plays to occupy their time, growing upon Dorothy's love for the arts. Dorothy had a very extensive career in the arts. From 1931-1960, she was a director for many stage companies in Toronto. She directed over 300 plays for Hart House and won the Central Ontario Drama Festival Best Play award in 1947.

Meanwhile, as a professor at the University of Toronto, Arthur taught classes and wrote a few notable academic papers, including: “The Possibilities of a Heart Clinic in a Children's Hospital” (1922), “The Autodestruction of Pepsin in Relation to its Ionization” (1926), and “The National Health Survey in The United States” (1938). His full title being: A. M. Goulding BA MD DPH (Bachelor of Arts, Medical Doctor, Diploma of Public Health). He got his DPH in 1942.

The last year the University of Toronto mentions A. M. Goulding is in 1955. It is uncertain if he worked past that year. He is stated to be a part-time lecturer with the university in the Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine. From the year 1955 to the year of his death, not much is known to have happened to him due to a lack of information and significant events during this time.

On 22 May 1969, Arthur Melville Goulding of Ontario passed away aged 80. He left behind his wife and four daughters and a legacy in pediatrics and public health in the Toronto area.

A few years later, in 1972, Dorothy passed away, leaving behind her daughters and her legacy on the Toronto scene. The house her parents had gifted her sat empty. In 1997, Eldon and Marcella Hannon Shields decided to make use of the abandoned home and restored the building, which later became The Children's Peace Theater which had its first performance in 2000.

In 1997 Helen, the first child of Arthur and Dorothy, passed away. From the few sources found on Helen, it is confirmed that she was part of the Players Guild and acted within it. Helen also attended the University of Toronto around the time of 1936; other than this information, nothing much is known of her.

On 29 March 2007, Ann, the second child, passed away from leukemia. Her husband was Frederick Ethbert Coombs, and he had passed away in 1976. She was formally educated at both Havergal College and Bishop Strachan Schools in Toronto and graduated from the University of Toronto School of Nursing in 1941. She had a short career in the ballet in Germany. She was involved in the Children's Aid Society and the Nursery School Association of Toronto. She left behind three children and multiple grandchildren.

On 5 January 2012, Susan passed away. She was 91 years of age, and she was in long-term care due to health reasons. Her obituary mentions if people wished to make memorial donations, they could do so to the Alzheimer's society, bringing up the question of whether she had been in a care home for Alzheimer's. She left behind her children and her grandchildren.

On 6 May 2017, the last child of Arthur and Dorothy, Dorothy Jane, passed away. During her life, she was educated and became a teacher. She got married to William Needles and moved to north Toronto. She had the opportunity to host kindergarten on the air and published various children's plays later in her life. In the late 60s, she returned to the classroom and served on Ontario's school board. In 1972, she founded the Globe Restaurant, which still stands today and has been nominated as a cultural area of interest in 2019 under Section 29 of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. O. 18. She left behind not only her legacy but five children, fifteen grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

A publication of letters, “A Rattle of Pebbles: The First World War Diaries of Two Canadian Airmen,” mentions Arthur Melville Goulding on a couple of occasions. He is also mentioned in the 2020 spring issue of the Cross and Cockade International journal. There is a biography provided of Arthur within the journal.

The book we tracked Arthur down in is called “Douglas Fallacies: A Critique of Social Credit,” by John Lewis. It was first published in 1935. There are two stamps on the inside pages, one just before the covers and one on the cover with a stamp saying “Dr. A. M. Goulding, Toronto.” On one of the covers, it also says “7.50,” indicating that at one time, it was for sale at a yard sale or book store before it made its way to the Robertson Library on Prince Edward Island.

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