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Dot Scott
Dot Scott was born in South Africa and lived there until 1997, when she and her husband Doug immigrated to Canada to join their son and daughter.
She began writing at the age of t...view moreDot Scott was born in South Africa and lived there until 1997, when she and her husband Doug immigrated to Canada to join their son and daughter.
She began writing at the age of ten, believes that everyone has a story to tell, and enjoys finding those stories. Over the years she has written numerous articles and children’s stories for various newspapers and magazines, which were published in South Africa and Canada.
During the apartheid era in South Africa she obtained Diplomas from Operation Upgrade of Southern Africa after completing the Laubach Literacy Journalism Course and the Laubach Literacy Teachers’ Course. She then created, wrote for and edited the Read for Joy magazine for newly literate adult African readers, to assist with Women’s Institute literacy projects. This magazine was mentioned at the Unesco Literacy Conference in Paris in 1980 as being unique, and its publication continued for over twenty years. She also wrote her own book, The Helping Hand, for new readers.
In 1975 her biography of her husband’s grandmother, titled Girl in a Blue Bonnet, was published in serial form in the Salvation Army’s magazine, The War Cry in South Africa, and at the urging of her son Mike and daughter Julie, she has recently rewritten it as a book. The research gave her much pleasure as she unearthed interesting facts about life in the early twentieth century and the Boer War in 1899.
She and her husband love living in Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada, and derive much pleasure from their large family in Canada, England and New Zealand. Their interest in travel has taken them to many parts of the world.view less