The poet, political activist, and constitutional theorist Francis Reginald Scott (1899-1985) was a catalyst in the struggle for Canadian political, legal, and literary independence; for human rights and fundamental freedoms in Canada; and for Quebec...

F. R. Scott was one of the most important catalysts of modern English-Canadian poetry, partly because of the influence of his own poetry and partly because of a charismatic personality: he was instrumental in the founding of several literary groups and...

The sudden death of Bruce Scott was not only the cause of great sadness to his many friends, but it also marked the end of an era in regional anaesthesia. Bruce was one of a tiny group of individuals who both practised and promoted...

Scott, Hugh F. Saturday, January 31, 2004 Scott, Hugh F. Born into eternal life "according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 1.1), on January 29, 2004 at the age of 75 years. Known to all as "Skip", he...

As [F. R.] Scott pointed out in the preface to New Provinces, the onset of the economic depression of 1929–1936 provided the young experimental writers of the twenties with a subject matter. This was certainly true in Scott's own case. He quickly arrived at the conclusion that the depression marked the breakdown of the capitalist system and that capitalism must be replaced by socialism. (p. 230) It was not long before these socialist convictions began to appear in Scott's poetry. For th...

"He bears history,/the lakes/he dives under …" These lines will take us into the first poem in Scott's [Selected Poems,] "Lakeshore," one of the finest and most characteristic pieces in the collection…. [Its theme is] Man's history, which extends back into pre-history and before man. Its unifying symbol is water as the source of life. The poem establishes through a specific concrete personal experience a contact in awareness with biological history, st...

[F. R. Scott] has published verse—eight volumes—distilling in his poetry a profound and moving vision of the world and his place in it. As we read through the early periodical verse, the subsequent books of poetry and the Selected Poems, it becomes increasingly clear that Scott's subject is man in the generic sense and human relationships. Although many of the poems begin with the individual experience, the movement is always from the personal to the universal. (p. 2) Scott is a strongl...