F. R. Scott

Francis Reginald Scott (1899-1985), born in Quebec City, son of the Anglican canon and poet Frederick George Scott, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and then taught law at McGill, of which he became dean. He confronted Premier Maurice Duplessis and won before the Supreme Court the Roncarelli case and that of the Padlock Law. A socialist, he took part in the founding of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, which he chaired from 1942 to 1950. A translator of Anne Hébert and of Saint-Denys Garneau, twice winner of the Governor General's Award, he died in Montreal.

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