Munroe Scott (1927 – September 15, 2019) was a Canadian freelance writer based in

Lindsay, Ontario Lindsay is a community of 22 367 people ( 2021 census) on the Scugog River in the Kawartha Lakes region of south-eastern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately west of Peterborough. It is the seat of the City of Kawartha Lakes (formerly Victori ...

. Scott was born in

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in 1927. He received a BA from Queen's University and an MA degree from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

. From 1950 to 1957 he worked as a writer for Crawley Films in Ottawa. He has been freelance since 1957 writing for the NFB, CBC, Carillon Films (Holland), Berkeley Studio (United Church of Canada), and others. Best known as the biographer of Dr.

Robert Baird McClure Robert Baird "Bob" McClure OOnt FRCS (Edin.) FICS (November 23, 1900 – November 10, 1991) was a Canadian physician, medical missionary to China, Taiwan, Gaza, India, and Borneo, and the 23rd Moderator of the United Church of Canada, the ...

, Scott has also written for the stage and his plays have premiered at Toronto's St.Lawrence Centre, Hamilton's Theatre Aquarius, and Lindsay's Kawartha Summer Theatre. Scott wrote the ''Sound & Light Show'' for Parliament Hill, 1984–93. His television writing/directing includes two thirteen part series comprising the memoirs of two Canadian prime ministers, ''First Person Singular'' (The Pearson Memoirs) and ''One Canadian'' (The Diefenbaker Memoirs). He was also writer/director for five parts of the eight hour CBC TV series ''The Tenth Decade'' (The Diefenbaker Pearson Years). His affection for Ottawa's Parliament Hill culminated in ''The Carving of Canada'', a fully illustrated book paying tribute to artists who have interpreted Canada in stone and glass in the very heart of the Centre Block. (Photography by Ian D. Scott) Scott died on September 15, 2019, at the age of 92.

Published works

*''Waltz for a pagan drum''. Tri-M, 1988 *''McClure: The China Years''. CANEC, Penguin, 1977, 1979 *''Always an Updraft'' – a writer remembers. Manotick, ON: Penumbra Press, 2005. *''The Liberators''. Manotick, ON: Penumbra Press, 2001. *''The Carving of Canada'' – a tale of parliamentary gothic. Manotick, ON: Penumbra Press, 1999. *''McClure: Years of Challenge''. Toronto: CANEC, 1977; Penguin Canada, 1979. *''Wu-feng'' Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1974.

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Personal websiteWriters' Union ProfilePlaywrights' Guild page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Munroe 1927 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian male writers Canadian male dramatists and playwrights Cornell University alumni People from Kawartha Lakes