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Munro, Donald W.
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Munro, Donald W.
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1916-1998
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Donald Munro was born in Regina. He attended the University of British Columbia (B.A. Honours French, 1938), Sorbonne (1939), and the University of Toronto (M.A. Political Science, 1946). He taught at Coquitlam Junior High School (1939-40) before serving with the RCAF as a navigator and instructor from 1940-1945. In 1944 Munro married Evelyn May Secombe (d. 1993). He worked for the Department of External Affairs, 1946-1965; and from 1967-1969 he served as Ambassador to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Panama. Munro was first elected as a Progressive Conservative to the House of Commons for Esquimalt-Saanich in October 1972. He was re-elected in 1974, 1979 and 1980, but did not run in the 1984 election. During his retirement in Sidney, B.C., Munro continued to follow and contribute to current political debate, and served on the Board of Directors of the University of Victoria Foundation. Munro died July 26, 1998.
