(13 Nov. 1881-19 Nov. 1955), physician, political figure. (Dr F. D. Munroe, Dr Fred D. Munroe) Born at Moose Creek, Ont., just west of GC. Parents: David D. Munroe and his wife Mary McRae. He attended primary school at Moose Creek, Cornwall Collegiate Institute, and McGill University, receiving his medical degree from McGill in 1906. He moved to the West in 1908, and thereafter had a medical practice for 22 years at Welwyn in southeastern Sask., near the Manitoba border. On 1 Sept. 1909 he was married to Frances G. Jamieson of Welwyn. (four children) He was elected to the Sask. legislature in the provincial general election of 6 June 1929, as the Conservative MLA for Moosomin. From Sept. of that year, he was minister of public health and minister-in-charge of the Child Welfare Act, in the Co-Operative government of Sask. premier J. T. M. Anderson. In June 1930, Dr Munroe’s friends held a complimentary luncheon at Moose Creek to offer their good wishes on his becoming minister. (Glengarry News 27 June 1930) As minister, he helped develop psychiatric wards in Regina General Hospital and to establish the requirement for physical examination before marriage, and he organized the Saskatchewan Cancer Commission. Dr F. D. Munro was defeated in the 1934 provincial election. Thereafter, he built up a large medical practice in Regina. He retired in 1954. He is buried in Regina. Dr Munroe was a near-Glengarrian rather than a Glengarrian, but he may be seen as part of the GC connection at this time in prairie politics. He has to be distinguished from another physician of the same surname from the Maxville area, Dr Hugh Edwin Munroe, who became lieutenant-governor of Sask. in 1931, during Dr F. D. Munroe’s period as minister. The premier who immediately preceded and then immediately followed Anderson was J. G. Gardiner, again of Maxville connections.

Regina Leader Post 21 Nov. 1955 * Canadian Parliamentary Guide 1931 * information kindly supplied by Sask. Archives * biographical notice, Standard Freeholder 6 Aug. 1932 * elected MLA, Cornwall Freeholder 12 June 1929