Alison Ross took her B.A. at McGill in 1938, with Special Certificate for Distinction in the General Course.

Aileen Dansken Ross was born in Montreal in 1902. In 1939 she graduated with a B.Sc. from the University of London. In 1941 she received her M.A. from the University of Chicago, and in 1951 her Ph.D. From 1940 to 1942 she worked as a Curriculum Advisor at Macdonald College. From 1942 to 1945 she was a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Toronto. She joined McGill as a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology in 1944, and in 1951 she became Assistant Professor. Between 1961 and 1963 she was Associate Professor and from 1964 to 1970 Professor. Aileen Ross was appointed Emeritus Professor of Sociology in 1970. She was an active member in learned professional associations and at McGill faculties, committees and associations. She published several books, and numerous articles and book reviews.

Ross Matthie & Co. was a business based in Montreal, and operated as Easton, Ross & Co. in Brockville and Kingston that shipped goods for Robertson Masson & Co.

The Ross family centers around Robert Baldwin Ross, his wife Elizabeth Ross (nee Paterson) and their four children William Bruce Ross, Douglas Allen Ross, Dorothy Jean Ross and Alison Elizabeth Ross. In addition, the family includes maternal Paterson relatives, including Edward Russell Paterson, William Stieven Paterson and James Paterson.

The family is related to David Livingstone through James Paterson's wife Ann Warden.