High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Leveson Ross (1848 - September 20, 1913), of Montreal, was a Scottish-born Canadian civil engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He established his fortune predominantly through railway construction, notably for the Canadian Pacific Railway, of which he was the major shareholder, and advising Lord Strathcona on railway projects in Argentina and Chile. He oversaw the electrification of street railways in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, St. John, Birmingham (England), Mexico City and Sao Paulo. He was President of the Dominion Bridge Company, the Mexican Power Company etc. He was Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars and Governor of McGill University and the Royal Victoria Hospital. He was an avid collector of the Old Masters and President of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He owned several yachts including the HMNS Liberty and became the first Canadian to be made a member of the Royal Yacht...