Family/Spouse: Neil Schechter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Laura May Schechter
2. Samuel Aaron Schechter

Notes:

Beloved husband of 56 years of Evelyn Ross , father of Colin Ross M.D., (Nancy)

Catherine Schechter (Neil) Louise Ross-Johns(Stan) Donald Ross (Fran) and nine grandchildren , Simeon Ross, Dana Ross, Laura Schechter, Sam Schechter, Andrew Ross, Keir Ross, Micaela Ross, Connor Ross, Liam Ross, two step-grandsons Matthew Johns and Marc Johns.

Predeceased by his parents Alexander Ross of Montreal and Grace Davis Ross of Wichita, Kansas,and sister Jean Morrison, Toronto. He is survived by brother Bob Ross, Bracebridge, ON and sister Alice Rothney, Winnipeg., MB

Bill spent his childhood in Manchuria, moved to Montreal for his high school and university years. He was a proud member of the Black Watch seeing action in Belgium and Holland as a platoon commander. Finishing his degree in Chemical Engineering at McGill in 1947 he joined Imperial Oil and remained with them for 38 years, pioneering many aspects of pollution control. He was instrumental in setting up the Alberta Special Waste Corporation as a member of their Board for several years.

With a beautiful bass voice, Bill was a member of and soloist with choirs in the many cities in which he lived, Montreal, Sarnia, Winnipeg, Catania, Sicily, London, England , Edmonton and Calgary. He delighted in sailing ,hiking , skiing and travelling .

Funeral Services will be held at St. Andrew?s United Church 924 Heritage Dr. S.W. Monday March 21 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers donations in memory of Bill Ross may be made to the Glenbow Museum's Acquisition Fund and will be used to purchase objects in Bill Ross' name. The Glenbow Museum is at 130 - 9 Avenue SE T2G 5A6.

William married Evelyn Margaret Bruneau [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander + Grace Davis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Was dean of McGill law school. Mayor of Westmount after he retired.

Below is the first page of an obituary at http://www.shpfqbiographies.sitew.ca/fs/Root/d55e6-BRUNEAU_Aime_Sydney_v_site_w.pdf

A.-S. Bruneau 1
BRUNEAU, AIM?-SYDNEY (1893 - 1979)
Bruneau, Aim?-Sydney, colporteur, moniteur, soldat, avocat (1917-1950), professeur de droit, n? ? Qu?bec le 25 juin 1893, d?c?d? ?
Westmount le 4 f?vrier 1979. Il avait ?pous? Mary Ruth Dawson le 7 juin 1918. On ne conna?t pas le lieu de sa s?pulture.
Sa famille
Aim?-Sydney Bruneau ?tait le fils d?Isma?l Bruneau et Ida Girod. Il ?tait n? ? Qu?bec le 25 juin 1893. Son p?re ?tait issu d?une famille de convertis et ?tait devenu
pasteur presbyt?rien ? Montr?al en 1882, avait collabor? avec Chiniquy ? Kankakee
Illinois1, puis avait pass? cinq ans dans la communaut? francophone de Green Bay
Wisconsin o? il s??tait mari? en 1886. De 1889 ? 1893, il avait travaill? en Nouvelle-
Angleterre avant d?accepter le poste de l??glise presbyt?rienne de Qu?bec o? naquit
Aim?-Sydney. C?est en 1918 que son p?re d?m?nagea ? Montr?al pour s?occuper de la
Mission Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Plateau Mont-Royal aujourd?hui) et il y restera douze ans.
Ce quartier ouvrier est plut?t pauvre et la mobilit? y est grande. Avec le modeste salaire
de son p?re pour faire vivre neuf ans, Sydney ne devait pas se sentir diff?rent de ses
camarades. Il fr?quentait l??cole du dimanche et quand les enfants voulaient fait une
activit? sp?ciale, ils la finan?aient au moyen d?un concert. Ils allaient donc vendre des
billets notamment ? des presbyt?riens plus fortun?s qui acceptaient g?n?reusement de les
acheter. Aim?-Sydney se souvient m?me d?avoir r?cit? des po?mes en pareilles
occasions2. Comme la Mission avait une ?cole protestante de jour, il recevra son
instruction sur place dans un milieu tr?s religieux o? la Bible est centrale.
Ses ?tudes
Plus ?g?, de 1905 ? 1909, il fr?quenta la nouvelle High School de la rue Peel au
nord de la rue Sainte-Catherine (o? se trouvent les Cours Mont-Royal aujourd?hui),
?tudes qu?il termina haut la main. Il avait ?t? moniteur ? l??cole du dimanche et, un
temps, il avait pens? aller vers le minist?re, mais sensible ? la po?sie et au th??tre de
Shakespeare, il s?orienta plut?t en lettres ? l?Universit? McGill d?autant qu?il avait obtenu
une bourse pour la premi?re ann?e. Cependant, dans ses perspectives religieuses d?alors,
il accepta de faire du colportage durant l??t? 1910 ? Dequem (au lac Saint-Jean), puis ?
Chicoutimi l??t? suivant. Compte tenu de la r?orientation de ses int?r?ts, il n?est pas s?r
qu?il en ait fait encore par apr?s. Il obtint de nouveau une bourse pour sa troisi?me ann?e
de baccalaur?at, dipl?me qu?il d?crocha en 1913, avec une mention tr?s grande
distinction en ?conomie. Il avait particip? largement aux activit?s compl?mentaires
durant ces ?tudes, secr?taire du club litt?raire, participant ? des d?bats, tr?sorier de
1 Selon Ida Ruth Bruneau dans , p. 7, son p?re voulait
d?ailleurs donner ? son fils le pr?nom de Charles -Chiniquy et attendait sa venue ? Qu?bec pour le baptiser.
Mais l?illustre pr?dicateur ?tait trop vieux pou r un tel voyage et comme la m?re de l?enfant lisait alors
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities , et admirait Sydney Carton, c?est finalement ce pr?nom qui fut retenu. Son
p?re le baptisa lui-m?me de ce nom ? l??ge de quatre ans.
2 ?voqu? dans , p. 16, historique auquel nous devons de nombreuses informations de
cette biographie.

Birth:
not recorded

A. married Mary Ruth Dawson on 7 Jun 1918 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Mary (daughter of Arthur Osborne Dawson, LL.D. and Mary Agnes LeRossignol) was born on 16 Apr 1894 in Montreal, QC, Canada; died on 20 Mar 1971 in Westmount, QC, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
not sure about where

Ism?el + Ida Girod. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arthur Dawson was president of Canadian Cottons; president of Belding-Corticelli, a silk manufacturer, and Dominion Woollens. He was also a director of the Bank of Montreal. His companies no longer exist. He was president of the Montreal Board of Trade.

(Medical):
He presumably died of a myocardial infarction. He had one previous heart attack.

Died:
Died in his sleep on the Montreal-Toronto train

Arthur married Mary Agnes LeRossignol on 30 Jun 1893 in Toronto, ON, Canada. Mary (daughter of Peter LeRossignol and Mary Gillespie) was born on 21 Jul 1872 in Quebec City, QC, Canada; died on 4 Feb 1958 in Montreal, QC, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(Medical):
She was severely demented for the last eight years or so, presumably with Alzheimer?s disease.

Birth:
Place not recorded. Levis?