(16 June 1878-12 March 1947), physician. Born at St. Elmo, GC. Parents: William Munroe and his wife Janet McEwen. He attended public school at St. Elmo and high school at Alexandria. Having obtained his medical degree from McGill University in 1903, he followed further medical studies in Scotland and England. From 1904, he had a medical practice in Saskatoon. There he was a member of the Saskatoon city council, took part in establishing the Saskatoon City Hospital, and was chairman of the hospital’s board of governors. Dr Munroe ran for the provincial legislature of Saskatchewan in 1905 and 1912 as a Conservative, but was defeated. It is said that in 1912 the man he opposed was his fellow Glengarrian, A.P. McNab. Dr Munroe served in the First World War in France and in the Dardanelles campaign. He was mentioned three times in dispatches, and obtained the rank of lt.-col. and received the O.B.E. After the war he resumed his medical practice in Saskatoon. From 1931 to 1936 he was lieutenant-governor of Saskatchewan. Afterwards, he lived in California and in Saskatoon. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr Munroe was married in Aug. 1904 to Myrtle L. Braun. (two children) He was described in 1912 as “an occasional contributor to the medical press” (Morgan). Dr Margaret Ann Munroe was his sister.

     For a portion of the time during which Munroe was lieutenant-governor of Saskatchewan, James G. Gardiner was the premier of Saskatchewan. Munroe was succeeded as lieutenant-governor of Saskatchewan by another Glengarrian, A.P. McNab. For other Glengarry connections with prairie politics at this time, see the entries for Ada C. and George Norman Johnston and for S. H. McCuaig and for Mr and Mrs R.G. Reid, also for John Arthur McColl and James McNaughton, and also for D. W. McCuaig, who was a president of the organization which was the predecessor to the United Farmers of Manitoba. And it may be noted that Sir Douglas Colin Cameron (1854-1921), born at Hawkesbury not far from GC, was lieutenant-governor of Manitoba 1911-1916, and that it has been believed that the railway contractor John D. McArthur would also have been lieutenant-governor of Manitoba if he had lived a little longer. Also, Dr Munroe of the present article must be distinguished from a fellow physician and near Glengarrian who was a minister in the Saskatchewan government, Dr Frederick Dennis Munroe.

Glengarry News 28 March 1947 * MDict * Morgan (1912) 835 * Parker (1912) 425 (with fine portrait) * Dorothy Wright, “A Pill Rolling Lieutenant-Governor” (undated magazine clipping), character sketch, with biog. detail and with portraits of Dr Munroe and Mrs Munroe * Campbell, Tannis and Stewart, MacDougalls, 230-235 (portrait) * studies medicine in Scotland and England, GN 11 Dec. 1903 * appointed lieutenant-governor, GN 3 April 1931