Ross, George

ROSS, George (1854-1929) was active in the Niagara Peninsula where he was best known as a civil engineer and land surveyor. Born in Beaverton, Ont. on 12 June 1854 he was educated in Montreal and graduated from the School of Engineering at McGill University in 1875. He became a qualified land surveyor in 1881 and opened an office in Welland, Ont. in 1885. Shortly after he began to advertise himself as an architect, and in 1889 prepared a Gothic design for St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Bald Street at Fraser Street, WELLAND, ONT., (Welland Tribune, 5 April 1889, 1, t.c.; Golden Jubilee of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Welland, 1939, 10, illus.). He joined the Ontario Association of Architects on 21 March 1891 but his name is absent from membership rolls after 1894. Ross later served as township engineer for ten separate townships around the Welland area, and took an active interest in civic affairs in the Town. He died in Kamloops, B.C. on 1 November 1929 (obit. Welland Tribune, 4 Nov. 1929, 2; biog. History of Welland County, 1887, 573-4; biog. and port. Annual Reports of the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors, 1930, 132-3)