Ross, Alex J.^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

• Name	Ross, Alex J.
  Gender	Male
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	BC	Nov? 1885-Nov 1886
  Died	Calgary, AB
  Buried	Union Cemetery, Calgary, AB   [6]
  Person ID	I432	Camera Workers | R, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2017

  
  

• Headstones		A.J. Ross' gravestone, Union Cemetery, Calgary, AB. Ross took the only known photographs of the Last Spike ceremony for the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway on 7 Nov 1885 at Craigellachie, BC.
  		A.J. Ross' gravestone closeup, Union Cemetery, Calgary, AB. Ross took the only known photographs of the Last Spike ceremony for the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway on 7 Nov 1885 at Craigellachie, BC.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Berton says he photographed the driving of the last spike at Craigellachie on 7 Nov 1885. A Vancouver paper reported him leaving Winnipeg in mid-Sep 1886 for a two-month tour along the CPR and into BC. Dempsey contains further biographical information.

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] COLLECTION: AEPAA. [S48] COLLECTION: ACG. [S197] Berton (1971), Berton, Pierre , (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1971). [S8] Dempsey (1978), Dempsey, Hugh, (Calgary: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1978). [S673] Vancouver News, 4, 16 Sep 1886. [S692] Correspondence, David Mattison (Reliability: 3), 29 Jul 2008. K. Buckley, University of Calgary Archives, to Mattison. A.J. Ross was buried in Union Cemetery, Calgary.