Alice Munro by Robert Thacker Alice Laidlaw Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario, Canada on J, the eldest child of Robert Eric Laidlaw (–76), a fox farmer, and Anne Clarke Chamney Laidlaw (–), a former schoolteacher. Members of her father’s family, having emigrated to Upper Canada from the Ettrick Valley on the Scottish borderlands in , were among the exodus of.