William Ross (Canadian politician)
|Senator for Victoria, Nova Scotia|
May 18, 1905 – March 17, 1912
|Appointed by||Wilfrid Laurier|
|Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Victoria, Nova Scotia
|Succeeded by||Charles James Campbell|
|Preceded by||John Lemuel Bethune|
|Succeeded by||Electoral district was abolished in 1903|
December 20, 1824|
Boularderie, Nova Scotia
|Died||March 17, 1912
|Political party||Anti-Confederate (1867-1869)
|Residence||Halifax, Nova Scotia|
|Cabinet||Minister of Militia and Defence (1873-1874)|
Born in Boularderie, Nova Scotia, the son of John Ross, a Scottish immigrant, and Robina McKenzie, Ross was a merchant and shipbuilder. In 1855, he married Eliza Moore. He represented Victoria County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1857 to 1867. He was elected to the 1st Canadian Parliament in 1867. From 1873 to 1874, he was the Minister of Militia and Defence. Ross resigned his seat in the House of Commons in 1874 after he was named customs collector for Halifax and served until 1888.
Ross also served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Cape Breton militia.
- Johnson, J.K. (1968). The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967. Public Archives of Canada.
- William Ross – Parliament of Canada biography
- The Canadian parliamentary companion, HJ Morgan (1869)
- The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1877, CH Mackintosh
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