Background
Scott was born in 1867 in London Township, Ontario, in rural southwestern Ontario, the child of George Scott and Isabella Telfer. He moved to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1885, and then – at the age of 19 – to Regina, the capital of the Northwest Territories, in 1886. He worked for and then ran a number of Grit newspapers.
He became a partner in the Regina Standard from 1892 to 1893. From 1894 to 1895, he was the owner and editor of the Moose Jaw Times. Scott then bought the Regina Leader (known today as the Regina Leader-Post) in 1895, and was its editor until 1900.
During this period, Scott gained a measure of fame as pitcher for a local baseball team.
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