Scott (62) has been appointed for a three-year term as national coach of the Canadian senior squad.
"I see it as another challenge. I’m excited and looking forward to it," Scott told the Otago Daily Times.
"When I coached New Zealand teams I knew all the players and had a close relationship with them.
"But in Canada most of the players I will be working with I don’t know and this will be the challenge for me."
New Zealand bowlers have held coaching positions at bowls clubs in Australia but Scott is the first to be appointed to a national team.
It is a part time-appointment and Scott will still be based in Dunedin and remain green keeper and manager at the North East Valley club. He has held that position since 1992.
Scott will begin his work with the Canadian team in Australia in three weeks when the Eight Nations Championships will be held on the Queensland Gold Coast, the venue for next year’s Commonwealth Games.
He will also attend training camps in Canada and will work with development coaches. He will help to develop the structure for club and area coaching in Canada.
The appointment was announced by Anna Mees, the executive director of Bowls Canada Boulingrin, which is the Ottawa-based governing body for lawn bowls in Canada.
"Terry’s expertise with the strategy and technique required for success in southern hemisphere conditions is a boon for Team Canada as it heads down under for all major international competitions over the next three years," Mees said.
Three of the major international events — Commonwealth Games (2018), Asia and Pacific Championships (2019) and World Bowls (2012) — will all be based at the Broad Beach Bowling Club on the Queensland Gold Coast.
"It is exciting for me to become part of the Canadian coaching team," Scott said.
"I will have the opportunity to help develop the squad to achieve results on the world stage that will lift them to the next level."
Scott has had a wide experience of international bowls as a player and coach and his knowledge of the faster southern hemisphere greens will be valuable to the Canadian team.
He won the New Zealand fours title in 1977 and the singles in 1990 and first represented New Zealand in 1985. He has won a record 38 Bowls Dunedin titles.
But it will be his work as a green keeper at the North East Valley club and his coaching of national teams that will be most valuable to Canada.
Scott started working with the New Zealand high performance development age group squads in 2007 and was assistant coach with the Black Jacks team from 2009-14.
"Terry is well versed in the policies and procedures of coaching within a national team programme and is no stranger to international coaching success," Mees said.
Scott has had coaching staff assignments with New Zealand at the Asia and Pacific championships, Commonwealth Games, World Bowls and the annual transtasman series.
Darryl Fitzgerald, of Ontario, has been appointed the national coach for the Canadian development squads and will work with Scott.
"I am thrilled with the direction that we are with our coaching right now," Mees said.
"The quality of applications we received for these positions was outstanding and is an indication of the coaching excellence that is developing within Canadian bowls.
"I am excited to work with Terry and Darryl in establishing a formal network for Canadian coaching excellence."
