Canadian politician born in Boularderie, Nova Scotia, elected to the First Canadian Parliament in 1867.

Philip Simpson Ross was born on August 24, 1827, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

He was an accountant, businessman, and officeholder. Educated in Glasgow, he was employed as a bookkeeper at the Monkland Iron and Steel Company before emigrating to Quebec in 1851. He settled in Montreal, where he worked as an accountant at the Montreal Marine Works. In 1858, Ross left the firm to set up an independent accounting service. Around 1860 he went into partnership with his brother James, and they became the firm of P. S. Ross and Brother. In 1872, another brother, William, joined the firm. When the Canadian government implemented the insolvency act, Ross became one of its first official assignees in 1880. He also had the opportunity to become the accountant for several new corporations, e.g., Sun Mutual Life Insurance Company of Montreal and Bell Telephone Company of Canada. Eventually, three of his sons joined him, forming P. S. Ross and Sons. Ross played an important role in the development of accountancy as a profession. In 1880, he was one of the founders of the Association of Accountants in Montreal (now the Ordre des Comptables Agréés du Québec), the first organization of chartered accountants to be incorporated in North America. He became its vice-president and later president, the post he held for the next 13 years. He also served as secretary of the Canada Iron Mining Company, the Canada Insurance Union, and the Windsor Hotel Company. He was a member of the Montreal Board of Trade and Treasurer of the Natural History Society of Montreal.

In 1856, he married Christina Chalmers Dansken (1829–1911). He died on February 1, 1907, in Montreal, Quebec.

Philip Dansken Ross was born on January 1, 1858, in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Philip Simpson Ross (1827-1907), a Montreal accountant and businessman.

He was a Canadian journalist, newspaper publisher, ice hockey administrator, and politician. In 1875, he graduated from McGill University, where he was on the football and rowing clubs. As a captain of the McGill football club, Ross led it to victory against Harvard University in the first Canada-U.S. international football game in 1878. He was a provincial single sculling champion, played lacrosse, and founded several golf clubs. He began to work for the Montreal Harbour Commission but left to join the staff at the Montreal Star in 1880 and soon became its managing editor. In 1886, Ross became co-owner of the Ottawa Evening Journal, and, in 1891, he bought out his partner, made it into a highly successful paper, and served as its president for 60 years. He was one of the founders of the Canadian Press Newspaper Association and became its first president. He helped build the Ottawa Hockey Club (now the Ottawa Senators). He befriended the sons of Lord Stanley, the Governor-General of Canada. In 1892, Lord Stanley appointed him a trustee for his championship ice hockey trophy, known today as the Stanley Cup. He also helped found the Ontario Hockey Association in 1890. Ross won the election as alderman in Ottawa (1902-1923) but lost in the 1914 election for Ottawa mayor. In 1933, he served as president of McGill's Graduate Society. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1976.

In 1891, he married Mary Beasley Littlejohn (1866–1943). He died on July 5, 1949, in Ottawa, Ontario.

Malcolm Mackenzie Ross was born on January 2, 1911, in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

He was a Canadian literary critic, editor, and educator. He was educated at the University of New Brunswick (B.A., 1933), the University of Toronto (M.A., 1934), and Cornell University (Ph.D., 1941). After teaching briefly at the universities of Indiana and Manitoba, he was appointed Professor of English at Queen’s University, where he served as Head of the Department of English (1957-1960) and held the James Cappon Professorship in English from 1960 to 1962. Then he was a Professor of English and the Dean of Arts at the University of Toronto (1962-1968). From 1968 to 1982, he was a Thomas McCulloch Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax. As a founding and general editor of McClelland and Stewart's New Canadian Library (1958-1978), he prepared the ground for the flowering of Canadian fiction that has now won international recognition. In 1976, Ross was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and received at least ten honorary degrees from various universities and numerous awards, including the Lorne Pierce Medal of the Royal Society of Canada and the Northern Telecom International Award in Canadian Studies. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and served as its president from 1970 to 1971.

In 1938, he married Lois Natalie Hall (1915–1996). He died on November 4, 2002, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

A chartered accountant, Ross was born in Montréal in 1870. He was a member of P.S. Ross and Sons, Accountants. Awarded an Hon. LL.D., by McGill in 1925, Ross served on the Board of Governors from 1910-1945.

John Kenneth Ross was born on April 15, 1916, in Montreal, Quebec.

The son of George A. Ross, a partner in the leading Canadian firm of Ross & MacDonald, was educated at Lower Canada College, Montreal, at Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario (1927-31), and at Westmount High School, Montreal, (1931-34). In 1934, he joined his father's firm as an assistant, preparing working drawings and supervising the construction of small projects. With the encouragement of his father, he moved to Boston, Mass. to study architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1936-39, then returned to Canada to attend architectural courses at McGill University in 1940-41 where he obtained his diploma. He rejoined Ross & MacDonald and after the death of both senior partners, he inherited the business and continued the practice in Montreal under a succession of names including Ross & Ross (1946-47); Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Heughan (1947-50); Ross, Patterson, Townsend (1951); Ross, Patterson, Townsend & Fish (1952-60), and Ross, Fish, Duchenes & Barrett (after 1960).

He died on January 28, 1978, in Montreal, Quebec.