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James Ross (9 May 1835 – 20 September 1871) was a Métis journalist, lawyer, and member of the provisional government established by Louis Riel during the Red River Rebellion of 1869–1870. He graduated with honours from the University of Toronto in 1857. He also received a Master of Arts from the same university later in 1865. He was the Métis son of Scottish immigrant author and Hudson's Bay Company fur trader/administrator Alexander Ross and Sarah (Timentwa), an Okanagan tribal woman. James married Margaret Smith in Toronto on 18 May 1858.
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