Ross, Dorothy Jean, 1909-

Dorothy Jean Ross was born in Montreal in 1909 and earned her B.A. from McGill in 1930. In the same year she took her Interim First Class High School Diploma from Macdonald College. While teaching at Connaught School in Montreal (1931-1934) she earned her M.A. in History from McGill (1932) and was an assistant in the History Department during the 1933-1934 season, marking essays for Professor E.R. Adair. Due to a Moyse Travelling Fellowship she was able to spend the remainder of 1934 and 1935 in England conducting research for her doctoral thesis on English justices of peace in the 16th century. In 1936 she returned to Montreal and joined the staff of the Montreal High School for Girls. In 1939 she became McGill's first woman Ph.D. She became Vice-Principal of the Montreal High School for Girls (1951), Principal (1958) and retired in 1965.