Ross, Andy

Andrew Ross was from Edmondstone, New Brunswick, and worked for the Canadian Press prior to 1943, when he joined the Canadian army, serving with the Pictou Islanders, then as an Officer with the Directorate of Military intelligence in Ottawa, and later as a Press Censor in London and Paris. After the war, her worked for CP in Ottawa briefly, but joined the Department of External Affairs in 1947. He worked in government, in increasingly responsible positions, for the rest of his career, including as First Secretary and Consul of the Canadian Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela; Ambassador to Chile; and other posts.