James Gordon (Jamie) Ross was born on Lot 9, Concession 5 of West Zorra Township, the second son of David Robert and Annie (nee Munro) Ross, but he was raised in Embro after the family moved to 70 John St. He attended Embro Public School and Woodstock Collegiate and graduated from McGill University in engineering. He was an engineer with the Grand Trunk Railway (1903-05), a prospector in the Cobalt district (1906), engineer and superintendent, Hudson River Tunnels, New York (1906-07) and manager of the Worthington Mine (1908). From 1909 to 1911 he travelled worldwide examining mining properties, then returned to Montreal to join the Milton Hersey Company as a consulting engineer (1911-14). He enlisted on September 23, 1914 and served with the Black Watch Regiment (Royal Highlanders of Canada). He rose to the rank of captain before he was wounded at Festubert in 1915 and withdrawn from service. He was later made Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment.

On August 30, 1921 he married Gladys Vera Miner, widow of Major Gilbert D. McGibbon, and they travelled extensively in North and South America for the Milton Hersey Company. In 1929 he joined the Asbestos Corporation of Thetford Mines, Quebec, rising to vice president and general manager. He was a director of the Royal Bank of Canada, president of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (1935) and general manager of Wartime Metals (1940-45). In 1940 he gave $25,000 to the federal government to purchase a Spitfire fighter, which was named in his honour. He was a member of the St. James and Mount Royal clubs of Montreal and he and his wife built Amiante Lodge at the Seigniory Club, Montebello, Quebec. They had no children. Jamie and his wife Gladys are both buried in North Embro Cemetery. http://www.heroesofzorra.ca/index.php/veterans/embro/item/ross-james-gordon

James G. Ross, a member of Montreal’s Scottish elite, was a prominent figure in the city’s financial circles. He was the senior member of the accounting firm P.S. Ross and Sons after his father’s death and was also president of Ross Realty and a member of the Montreal Board of Trade; he also served as president of the Montreal Association of Chartered Accountants. Aside from financial matters, he went on an exploratory expedition in Yellowstone Park in 1888. Throughout most of his life he was an active member of the militia beginning with the Ontario Field Battery, then the Victoria Rifles in Montreal, from which he retired as a captain in 1891. He joined the 5th Royal Scots in 1898, rising from lieutenant to major. During World War I he served as a major-general, CMG, VD.

Ian Ross was born in Ile Maligne, Quebec and received his early education in Arvida. He entered the pre-med program at Acadia University where he stayed for two years -1942/44. In 1944 he came to McGill, interrupting his studies to join the
Merchant Navy from 1945-1948 and served in the Korean War from 1948-1951. Returning to McGill he received a B.Sc in 1953. His working life was spent in real estate.

Howard Irwin Ross was born in 1907 in Montreal and died in 1974. His parents were John Wardrop and Gertrude Holland Ross, and he married Dorothy Dean St. Clair in 1938. They had two children. Ross received his B.A. from McGill in 1930, his M.A. from Oxford in 1932, and became a C.A. in 1937. During World War II, Ross worked as chairman on the Foreign Exchange Control Board and Administrator for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. For this, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946. A partner in the accounting firm of Touche, Ross, Bailey and Smart, he also served as president of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants' Committee on Accounting and Auditing Research, and for a term as president of the Québec Institute of Chartered Accountants. He wrote a textbook entitled The Elusive Art of Accounting. From 1959 to 1964, Ross sat on the Board of Governors as graduate representative, and in 1964 he became Chancellor of the University. In 1969 he resigned from the Chancellorship to become Dean of the newly created Faculty of Management, a position he held until his retirement in 1973. In 1974, the Howard Ross Library of Management was named in his honour.