Editing Arthur Currie (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Arthur Currie homestead 1919.JPG|thumb|left|The farm homestead of Arthur Currie (1919)]]

Arthur Currie was born on 5 December 1875 to William Garner Curry and Jane Patterson on their farm near the hamlet of [[Napperton, Ontario]], just west of [[Strathroy-Caradoc|Strathroy]].<ref name=odnb>{{cite ODNB|first=A. M. J.|last=Hyatt|title=Currie, Sir Arthur William (1875–1933)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32670|access-date=16 December 2008|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32670|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=TimesObit /> He was the third in a family of eight children and grew up on the homestead of his paternal grandparents, John Corrigan and Jane Garner.{{sfn|Sharpe|2009|p=16}} Currie's grandparents had emigrated from Ireland in 1838 to escape religious strife, and upon their arrival in Canada they had converted from [[Catholicism]] and [[Anglicanism]] to [[Methodism]], changing the family name from Corrigan to Curry.{{sfn|Sharpe|2009|p=16}} Arthur Currie modified the spelling of his surname from Curry to Currie in 1897.{{sfn|Sharpe|2009|p=16}}

Currie was educated in local common schools and at the [[Strathroy District Collegiate Institute]], where he proved to be a good student especially interested in literature. He had plans to pursue a professional career in law or medicine; however, the death of his father when Arthur was fifteen made this impossible due to his limited financial means.{{sfn|Sharpe|2009|p=16}} Currie instead pursued teacher training, but he was unable to secure a job and returned to high school to complete an honours certificate in order to gain university entrance.{{sfn|Sharpe|2009|p=16}} In May 1894, mere months before his final exams, Currie quarrelled with one of his teachers, and subsequently left high school to seek his fortune in [[British Columbia]],{{sfn|Sharpe|2009|p=16}} hoping to take advantage of the financial boom resulting from the construction of the [[transcontinental railway]].{{sfn|Sharpe|2009|p=16}} However, Currie found no prospects outside of teaching, so he qualified as a teacher in British Columbia and took a teaching position on the [[Saanich Peninsula]] north of [[Victoria, British Columbia]].{{sfn|Sharpe|2009|p=16}} In 1896 Currie moved to Victoria, taking a position at Boy's Central School and later [[Victoria High School (British Columbia)|Victoria High School]].<ref name=odnb />{{sfn|Sharpe|2009|p=16}}{{sfn|Bosher|2012|p=221}}