ROSS, JAMES, railway engineer, businessman, and philanthropist; b

of 1878. Based in part on the work of a select committee chaired by George William Ross, which reported

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

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

Dalhousie College in 1863 [see James Ross*], he appointed Theodore Harding

Ross to have the mineral refined in Ontario. At the time the CCC’s refining was done by the Orford Copper Company of New Jersey

Ross for the mountain section from Calgary to the end of Onderdonk’s work, and John Ross (no relation) for the section north of Superior

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

(Toronto, [1976]; copy in AO, Pamphlet Coll., 1976, no.23). U.S., Lighthouse Board, Report on use of acetylene gas by the Canadian government as an illuminant for aids to navigation, by Albert Ross