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Authority record- CA QUA12487
- Person
- 1905-1998
Marion Ross was a graduate of Queen's University, B.A 1939 and received an M.A in 1949 from Columbia. She worked at Queen's University as an assistant professor, coach and Director of Women's Athletics from 1934 to 1970. Marion also co-founded the Queen's School of Physical and Health Education with Jack Edwards in 1947.
- CA QUA01833
- Person
- 1908-1992
John Henry Ross was a student (B.Sc.'35) at Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. and Consulting Engineer, Toronto, Ont.
- CA QUA11463
- Person
- 1908-1996
James Sinclair Ross was born in Shellbrook, Saskatchewan on January 22, 1908. 1996). When Ross was seven, his parents separated and Ross was raised by his mother. He left school at 16 to become a clerk at a bank in Abbey, Saskatchewan. Banking became Ross's lifelong career with writing happening in his spare time. His first story, "No Other Way," was published in London, England in 1934. There ensued a productive period of short story writing for small Canadian magazines. Ross's first novel, As For Me and My House, was published in New York in 1941 and was very well received. Ross's next two novels, The Well (1958) and Whir of Gold (1970), failed to garner the same appreciation. Upon retirement from the Royal Bank in 1968, Ross moved to Greece and then to Spain. Ill health prompted his return to Canada in 1980. Ross died in Vancouver in 1996.
- CA QUA01968
- Person
- 1916-
Born in 1916, in Embro, Ontario A.M. Ross graduated from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario with a B.A. (Hons.) in English in 1940. With the commencement of World War Two, Alexander Ross enlisted in the Canadian Army overseas, serving with 17th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery. At the conclusion of hositilities and following an honorable discharge, with distinction, he received his M.A. from the same University in 1948. He then took a position as Lecturer at Lakehead Technical Institute in Port Arthur, Ontario, and in 1954, after spending a year at the Institute of Education at the University of London, joined the Faculty as a Professor of English at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph, Ontario. Following the reorganization of the College into the University of Guelph in 1964, he became Chairman of the Department of English Language and Literature in the University's College of Arts. Since his retirement in 1978, he has devoted himself to travelling and the writing of numerous articles and a number of books. Alexander M. Ross lived for many years in Portland, Ontario, before removing to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, where he resided until his death on 16 April 2010.
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