Researching James Ross

Ross represented the views of the anglophone community in the Red River Colony, defusing tensions between the French- and English-speaking delegates of the Métis National Committee. He served on the Convention of Forty (January 25, 1870 to February 10, 1870) as a representative of St. John's Parish. Ross served as translator of the speeches of the French delegates, and also served on the "Committee of Six" responsible for drafting the "List of Rights" that were presented to the Government of Canada during the negotiations that led to the Manitoba Act of 1870 and the entry of the province of Manitoba into the Canadian Confederation. James Ross died of tuberculosis on September 20, 1871.

He was born in Arnage, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1817, the son of John Leith Ross, was educated at Marischal College there and came to Upper Canada in 1836. He was reeve for Nichol township from 1854 to 1859 and warden for Wellington County from 1858 to 1859. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in an 1859 by-election in the North riding of Wellington and served until 1861. Ross also served as Crown Lands Agent. He was first elected to the federal parliament in 1869 after the death of Thomas Sutherland Parker. He lived in Cumnock and later Guelph. Ross died in Guelph at the age of 77.

Born in Carluke, a village of South Lanarkshire, Scotland, Ross emigrated to Canada in 1832 with his brother, John Ross, settling in Quebec City. After briefly attending a private school, he started working within his uncle's, James and Thomas Gibb, wholesale grocery business, James Gibb & Company. He eventually started his own business with his brother as a grocery importer and trading in lumber.

He twice ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate for the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Quebec-Centre in the 1872 election and the 1878 election. In 1884, he was summoned to the Senate of Canada for the senatorial division of The Laurentides, Quebec on the advice of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald. He served until his death in 1888. The Hon. Ross was buried in Mount Hermon Cemetery in Sillery, on 4 October 1888.{|align=center|thumb|upright=1.5|Quebec and Lake Saint-John Railroad Locomotive Number 5, named after Ross|}

He was born in Fearn, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland, son of Alexander Ross and Christian Ross (maiden surname also Ross) and emigrated to Quebec City in approximately 1829. In the 1830s, he worked in a mercantile house in Quebec and was captain of a ship trading to the West Indies. On 10 May 1838, he married Marianna Browne (1820 – 1890) of Quebec City, with whom he had fourteen children (ten surviving). He and his family subsequently relocated to the Eastern Townships and in 1845 he founded the village of Gould, Quebec, where he manufactured pearl ash, ran a general store and served as the village's mayor. He spoke four languages – English, Gaelic, French and Spanish – and contributed poetry to newspapers such as the Sherbrooke Gazette.

Ross was heavily involved with the politics of the Sherbrooke region and is recorded as having moved the resolution for the organization of the County of Sherbrooke in May 1848. He was named in a local newspaper as one of several likely candidates for election to the legislature of the Province of Canada in 1857. His ambitions for high office were finally achieved when he was elected to the first Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the 1867 general election. Ross was a member of the Conservative Party of Quebec and represented the electoral district of Compton. He defeated Alden Kendrick, a merchant. Ross himself was defeated for re-election in 1871 by another Conservative, William Sawyer, who contested the seat at the behest of John Henry Pope after Ross declined to support a railway project promoted by Pope. After his defeat, Ross was appointed Dominion Emigration Agent for Scotland and visited his home country in 1872 and 1873, giving lectures on Canadian emigration. Ross contracted pneumonia on his return from the 1873 trip and died at his home in Gould on 23 January 1874.

He was born at Marrickville in Sydney to glass manufacturer Frank Ross and Edith Mary, née Price. He attended Arncliffe College and served in the 18th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, rising to the rank of major. On 13 May 1918 he married Gwendoline Ella Dew. After the war he worked as a clothing manufacturer and commercial traveller and was prominent in the All for Australia League. In 1932 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the United Australia Party member for Kogarah, serving until his defeat in 1941. He was known as an opponent of Premier and party leader Bertram Stevens, and was one of those to vote against him in the successful no-confidence motion in 1939. Ross died in 1975 at Wentworthville.

Ross was born at Prestonpans, East Lothian Scotland, the son of Major John Ross and Jean Buchan.

Ross practised as a lawyer at the Supreme Court in Scotland. He arrived in the Port Phillip District in August 1841. In 1841, Ross founded the law firm Blake & Riggall, the forerunner of Ashurst Australia.

On 31 October 1851 Griffith was nominated, being sworn-in the following month, to the Victorian Legislative Council, a position he held until resigning July 1852. He was replaced in the Council by Thomas Turner à Beckett.

The son of William Nelson Ross and Lydia Tufford, he was born in St Anns, Ontario and grew up there. Ross taught in the model school in Welland and then at Wellandport. He was principal at Scott Street School in St. Thomas when he resigned in 1896 to go into business.

In 1893, he married Sarah Agnes Kay.

He was elected to the Ontario assembly for Monck in 1908.

A member of the Canadian Writers' Association, he was the author of a volume of poetry which included poems such as "Canada First" and "Dominion Day".

Ross died in St. Catharines General Hospital at the age of 76, after being ill for three months.

His son Murray G. Ross was founding president of York University.