Frank Scott
Frank Scott
Francis Reginald Scott, CC, commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R. Scott, was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and its successor, the New Democratic Party. He won Canada's top literary prize, the Governor General's Award, twice, once for poetry and once for non-fiction. He was married to artist Marian Dale Scott...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 August 1899
CountryCanada
We were beginning to revolt against the old British Empire and its ideas and I met a lot of people in Montreal who shared these views.
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.