Frank M. Ross, a successful businessperson and First World War veteran who had been awarded the Military Cross, was appointed the 19th Lt.-Governor of British Columbia on this date in 1955. He held his vice-regal post for five years, retiring in October of 1960. Of interest is the fact that his stepson, John Napier Turner, would go on to become the nation’s 17th Prime Minister in 1984.
Ross passed into history in 1971, age 80. You can read more about his life and legacy at this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235920/http://www.ltgov.bc.ca/office/FrankRoss.htm
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.