Lilian Ross

Lillian (MacIntosh) Ross was the fourteenth child of a family of fifteen who were born to Donald and Sarah (Sadie) MacIntosh. The last two children were born in Meadowview in Northwestern Alberta. She graduated from Sangudo High School and trained as a teacher at the University of Alberta, Edmonton campus. Her university studies included courses in English Literature that inspired her to become an author.

While teaching in Whitecourt she met her future husband, Reg. Most of her thirty-five years teaching experience was in Drayton Valley where she and her husband raised two sons, Loonie and Erin. During the years that included teaching school, raising a family, playing and singing in a band, and involvement in community service, there was little time for writing except for songs, entertainment programs and letters.

After retiring from teaching a collection of family letters, memoirs and historical documents become the basis for the three books. Armed with these letters and documents and after two years of research and further six years of writing and typing the trilogy has become a reality. The Gentle Gamblers Second Edition, and and The Tender Years Second Editing are an upgrading with changes in format and design, the addition of more pictures and suggested changes from the first two volumes.

Lillian Ross is a retired school teacher, has a Bachelor of Education Degree from the University of Alberta and is the mother of two sons. She is now a widow and loves to write Historical Novels as well as make music with a band that she and her husband started years ago.