(13 March 1859-1943), engineer. (date of birth 1855 also given) (Alex Ross) Born near Martintown, GC. Parents: Daniel Ross (a GC farmer who went to both the California and the Cariboo gold rushes) and his wife Christie (or Christy) Mowat. He attended school locally, then was apprenticed at the age of 15 to a firm of Montreal engineers and machinists. As an engineer he worked in Montreal, Milwaukee (Wisc.), Port Arthur (Ont.), Vancouver, and elsewhere, at tasks which included constructing factories and bridges and installing steam plants. His life in the 1914 British Columbia biographical volume gives a long list of engineering projects in which he was involved, but it is not clear from this source how many of these projects he headed and in how many he was merely one of the skilled employees. On 28 Feb. 1881, he was married in Montreal to his relative Anna MacArthur of Lancaster and Montreal. He was a great-uncle of Ewan Ross.

His life in British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present: Biographical: Volume IV (1914) 67-69 * Ewan Ross, The Rosses of Martintown (1971) 32-35