(21 Feb. 1875-14 March 1955), clergyman. (M.F. Munro) (date of birth 1873 is also given) (Prof. Munro) Born at Allen Corners, Que., but his father, a veterinarian, was later a GC resident, at Lancaster. Parents: Mr and Mrs Malcolm Munro. Malcolm Fraser Munro attended primary school at Lancaster, high school at Williamstown, and Queen’s University (B.A., 1904, B. D., 1907). From 1907 to 1911 he was a Presbyterian minister at Smithville (later known as Corey), near Saskatoon. In Aug. 1910 he was appointed lecturer in Hebrew at the University of Saskatchewan. He was superintendent of Home Missions for Northern Saskatchewan from 1911 to 1916. St. Andrew’s, the Presbyterian (later United Church) college at the University of Saskatchewan, counted him among its founders, and he remained associated with this college for many years. He was acting principal of St. Andrew’s College for a short period beginning in 1916, held chairs of practical theology, religious education, and the Old Testament at the college, and was its bursar from 1914 till his retirement in 1945. In 1933 he received the honorary degree of doctor of divinity from Queen’s University. (QAR, with portrait, May 1933, also Standard Freeholder 19 May 1933, Glengarry News 26 May 1933) In 1945 he was honoured by his colleagues at St. Andrew’s at a banquet on his retirement as professor and bursar at the college. (GN 13 July 1945) In retirement he and his wife lived at their farm home north of Saskatoon. He was married to Margaret Gertrude Steele (B.A., Queen’s, 1909; d. 8 Sept. 1971), from north of Toronto. She was active in many women’s organizations. A bust of the Rev. Malcolm Fraser Munro, created by his wife, is in the library of St. Andrew’s College.

He was probably the brother of Peter Fraser Munro. Information supplied by Queen's University Archives (includes obituaries of Mrs Munro), University of Saskatchewan Archives, and the Saskatchewan Conference Archives, of Saskatoon * “In Memoriam,” in Year Book of the United Church for 1955 * obituary in Record of Proceedings, Saskatchewan Conference of the United Church of Canada, 1955 * preaches at Lancaster, Standard Freeholder 2 July 1937