Saskatchewan Archives (S-B1190)
This undated portrait of Dr. Robert G. Scott is clearly all about his canine companion, who is not identified but obviously had a close relationship with Dr. Scott. This photograph might have been taken in the Wakaw area, where Dr. Scott was a missionary doctor at the Geneva Mission from 1908 until 1945.
Dr. Scott had an excellent reputation in the region as a skilled doctor, and was often described as having an “imposing physique” because he was nearly six feet tall. This portrait of the doctor and his dog appears to have been taken later in Dr. Scott’s life, and here it seems that the small dog has stolen the spotlight from the “imposing” Dr. Scott.
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