Munroe Scott


Munroe Scott is a Canadian freelance writer living in Lindsay Ontario. He was born 1927 in Owen Sound,Ontario, and received a BA from Queen's University and an MA degree from Cornell University. 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, Berkeley Studio, and others. Best known as the biographer of Dr. Robert Baird McClure, 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 and One Canadian. He was also writer/director for five parts of the eight hour CBC TV series The Tenth Decade. 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.

Published works