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GEORGE WILLIAM ROSS (1841- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 739 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:WILLIAM See also:ROSS (1841- )  , See also:Canadian politician, was See also:born near See also:Nairn, See also:Middlesex See also:county, See also:Ontario, on the 18th of See also:September 1841, the son of See also:James See also:Ross and Ellen M'Kinnon, natives of Ross-See also:shire, See also:Scotland . From 1872-1883 he was a Liberal member of the Federal See also:House; from 1883-99 See also:minister of See also:education in the legislature of the See also:province of Ontario; and from 1899-1905 premier and treasurer of that province . In 1905 his See also:government was defeated, and in 1907 he retired to the Canadian See also:Senate . He was for many years an See also:advocate of See also:total See also:abstinence, and a well-known See also:speaker on imperial questions .

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