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Alastair Munro

Alastair Hugh Munro

January 5, 1941-July 31, 1985

 
Left: Judith Rudd and Alastair Munro. Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine. Right: Alastair Munro. Photo courtesy Carleton University Archives.

Born in Ottawa, Alastair Munro got his start in figure skating at the Minto Skating Club. With Judith Rudd, he won the junior pairs title at the 1958 Canadians. At the age of twenty, while attending Carleton University, he took his first ballet class. He joined the National Ballet of Canada in 1964 and later studied with the Joffrey Ballet company in New York. He was a principal dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet at Lincoln Center from 1973 to 1978 and later taught with the Washington School of Ballet and Ottawa School Of Dance. He passed away on July 31, 1985 at the age of forty-four.

Judith Rudd and Alastair Munro

Alastair's obituary from "The Ottawa Citizen": "MUNRO, Alastair Hugh. In hospital, Wednesday, July 31, 1985. Beloved son of Vera Townsend Munro and the late Sydney J. Munro, 3009 Riverside Drive. Dear brother of John and his wife Heather... Memorial donations to the charity of your choice appreciated."

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