Hello,
I want to thank Gary Still's family for maintaining this wonderful website that he created. I discovered through reading a thesis by Erin Millions- "By Education and conduct: educating trans-indigenous fur trade children...." that Annie McKenzie, the wife of Donald Ross Jr. is the daughter ...

Thanks, Gary! The page on my grandfather looks great. He died before I was born. My mother has dementia and can no longer give me details about him.
This is what I know…
He was an amateur boxer. His profession was a geological engineer. He and my grandmother moved to Powell River so that he could ...

Hi Gary,
William Roderick Ross's family page looks great! Thank you!
In the HBC record for Roderick Ross, Sr, it says that Roderick Ross was one of his children born April 1869. I was pretty sure that it was my great grandfather William Roderick Ross because he was also born in April (or late ...

I was planning to give you a donation towards the work that you'd done in creating this website about Red River ancestry. It's an amazing site. I don't know how a Family page differs from the pages that you've already done.

This is great! Thank you! I'm reading 'The Red RIver Settlement" by Alexander Ross. Are there any books that you would recommend?

Thanks for collecting and posting all this information about the Red River families. I really appreciate it!

Thanks. I didn't mean to imply that you were lying. I did the research about ten years ago and it was very rudimentary. I didn't know about the Archives Canada website. Thanks for the information. I will check it out.

Yes, my great grandfather, William Roderick married Leila Young.

Hello,
Could you please clarify this. Are you saying that you have found records in Archives Canada that refer to William Roderick Ross as a "half-breed?" ' And are there records where he claimed that Ann McKenzie is his mother?

This is confusing because how could he be a "half-breed" if both his ...

I am responding to a request for information about Donald Ross Jr.'s possible marriage to Annie McKENZIE, a daughter of Ann SPENCER and Samuel McKENZIE (1813-1879).

My great grandfather, William Roderick Ross(1869-1928) was the son of Donald Ross, Jr., the son of Donald Ross (1798-1852). He was ...