Norman Alexander Ross (1939 – 2022)
	
Norm Ross was born in Dawson Creek and he and his family lived in a remote location on the upper Halfway River, fifty miles upstream from the Peace River. It was a two-day horse trip through rough bush to Fort St. John, on a trail that became the Alaska Highway. The family moved to Fort St. John when Norm was ten so he could attend school. He briefly attended UBC before taking off to travel. He married Carole at age twenty-five and then attended BCIT and then the Colorado School of Mines where he obtained a Mining Engineer degree and a master’s in engineering. He worked for five years in British Columbia and Texas and then for five years as national mining manager with the Bank of Montreal in Toronto.((“Norman Alexander Ross.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 16 September 2022.))

In 1980, Norm Ross returned north to start placer mining and established Ross Mining with claims on Dominion Creek in the Klondike gold fields. He and Carole divorced in 1981. Sandy and her daughter Vicki joined Norm at Dominion Creek in 1983 and they all spent the next 22 years mining with months away in Hawaii, Vancouver, and Kelowna. He sold Ross Mining in 2005 and retired. Norm was repeatedly awarded through the years for his excellence in mining and business. Sandy passed away after a short illness in 2020.((“Norman Alexander Ross.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 16 September 2022.))