ROSS, JAMES (1848-1913)

ROSS, Sir GEORGE WILLIAM, educator and politician; b

ROSS, FRANCIS (Frank), businessman; b

Ross*, the Liberal candidate who was attempting to unseat the despised John Christian Schultz* in the riding of Lisgar. Fearing

. In June 1863 William Ross offered to sell Reford his importing business. Ross was a member of a family of Quebec importers and a brother of James Gibb

ROSS, HARRIET (originally named Araminta) (Tubman

. Through the good offices of James Ross, then executive director of the Montreal Street Railway Company, the

educator; b. 25 Nov. 1842 in New Glasgow, N.S., son of Alexander Forrest and Barbara Ross McKenzie

, daughter of Robert Baxter; m. 20 Aug. 1896 Albert Ross Hill in Halifax, and they had two daughters; d. 9 March 1917 in Columbia

Ross, the long-time minister of education, should have given Whitney cause for concern – apparently it did not – because Ross was a more vigorous leader than Hardy and he certainly

Ross, a member of the Sons of Temperance and a vice-president of the Alliance’s Ontario branch, became Liberal premier of Ontario. In what seemed a vindication of Spence’s faith in the

. Ross Lambertson A collection of material relating to John Bryden

ROBERTSON, JOHN ROSS, journalist, publisher, philanthropist, historian, and sportsman; b

qc and the following year he formed his first partnership, with George Ross. Johnston is most widely known for his role in the successful

highly centralized school system was needed if the province was to adjust to the social and economic changes facing it, a view that reflected the policies of education minister George William Ross. Seath

. The team emerged undefeated from the Group 1 series, but lost the championship and the John Ross

Jones Ross* and Louis-Olivier Taillon*; his resignation was occasioned by

founded along with Whitney, F. S. Pearson, and William Benjamin Ross, a Halifax friend and lawyer-promoter who was also involved in Dominion Coal. Its charter of incorporation in 1895 authorized it to

diversified economy and the area is well known for the entrepreneurial spirit of its inhabitants. Alan Ross Breakey