Ted Scott's Background

Edward ‘Ted’ Scott was - and still is known for his compassionate personality and his positive outlook on life.   He was born on April 30, 1919 in Edmonton, Alberta to loving and supportive parents, Kathleen Frances Scott and Reverend Tom Walter Scott1. He was the second son of four children, and he and his family lived a wholesome life as Ted was raised in Saskatchewan2. Unfortunately, Ted and his family had to move to Ladner, British Columbia when he was eighteen years old due to his father’s faltering health conditions in 19373. Ted enrolled in the University of British Columbia as soon as he could - even though he was unsure about what he would do with his future - and immediately found interesting people who would later inspire him, as well as travelers who were a part of the Student Christian Movement1 . It was in college, that Scott really had the opportunity to learn and analyze the causes of injustice and the obvious failure of the capitalist system during the Great Depression.
Ted married Isabel Brannan in 1942 and was appointed as a priest for Saint Paul’s Church in 1943 when he was only twenty-four years old.3. As time went by, he started to realize that he wanted to get involved in helping Japanese-Canadians have a voice while Canada’s subtle racism issues started to come to the surface1. Ted wanted to help everyone he could, in anyway he could. His friend Elizabeth Driscoll recalls details about Scott when saying: "Going to bat for broke students, single mothers, disabled people, divorced women when divorce was out-he never failed the little people.”2 He never did forget the little people, and continued to stand by them until they could support themselves.
In 1966, when Ted was fifty-six years old, he was named the Bishop of the Kootenays in British Columbia, and would successfully spend 100 days on the road each year - traveling to other ministries to promote unity among the world’s Christian churches1. He would go on to inspire many people... [continues]

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