Community activist.
Born at Winnipeg around 1931, daughter of Carolyn “Carol” Lipsett (1901-1985) and Thomas Walter Laidlaw, she lived most of her life in Winnipeg except for a period in the early 1970s at Montreal. She attended the Riverbend School for Girls and later the University of Manitoba, where she studied Interior Design. After graduation, she worked as a women's fashion coordinator at Eatons until her marriage in 1958 to banker H. Neil Scott (1920-1994) with whom she subsequently had three sons.
She served as President of the Junior League of Winnipeg (1966-1967), Chair of the Board for the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature (today's Manitoba Museum), a board member of the Manitoba Health Appeal Board, Commissioner of the Manitoba Law Reform Commission, and Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees for the National Museum of Science and Technology at Ottawa.
She died at the Misericordia Hospital on 11 April 2015.
Obituary [H. Neil Scott], Winnipeg Free Press, 19 December 1994, page 31.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 17 April 2015.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 November 2021
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