Scotland Magazine author Anthony Dalton

A rollercoaster ride of a life

HORATIO HAMILTON ROSS WASN’T YOUR NORMAL SORT OF HERO, BUT HE ESTABLISHED A MASSIVELY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS, LEFT A TRAIL OF MARITIME DISASTER, AND WAS LOVED BY HIS FRIENDS. ANTHONY DALTON REPORTS

He arrived in Medicine Hat, Alberta, quietly enough aboard his prairie launch, a small vessel that had carried Horatio Ross from Calgary on the Bow River – a distance of some 200 miles. He had planned to continue across the vast prairies on the South Saskatchewan River to Winnipeg, but he liked the ...

Scottish Heroes from Issue 9 published on 20/7/2003