David Scott

David E. Scott (born 1939) is a Canadian writer from Ontario.

Biography David E. Scott was born in 1939 and received his education in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Ontario. He had a long career in journalism, working variously as a reporter, photographer, and editor, including as a bureau chief for The Canadian Press and travel editor for the London Free Press. Scott sold his publishing company, David E. Scott Publishing, along with its publications in September 1969. In the early 1970s, he owned a disco bar in the Principality of Andorra. He re-established David E. Scott Publishing in 2001 as a book publishing company, with its first two titles being a third edition of his Ontario Place Names and More Great Canadian Fishing Stories.

Scott is the author of several titles on the subject of place-names in Canada, such as Ontario Place Names and New Brunswick Place Names.