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Alexander G. Rose
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Journalist.
Born at Orillia, Ontario on 23 November 1883, son of John Climie Rose (1852-1919) and Catherine J. McConkey (1855-1950), he graduated from the Orillia Collegiate Institute. In 1907, he was a member of the All-Canada lacrosse team that toured Australia for a series of demonstration games.
He moved to western Canada to work as a journalist successively at the Winnipeg Tribune (c1912-1922), Vancouver World (1922-1924, News Editor), Edmonton Bulletin (1924-1928, Managing Editor 1926-1928), and Regina Star (1928-1932).
On 14 June 1916, he married Ethel May Little (1885-1941) at Winnipeg and they had three children: Donald Alexander Rose (1917-1918), Ronald Davis John “Ron” Rose (1919-2015), and Miriam Elrine Rose (1924-1926). He died in ill health at Victoria, British Columbia on 26 March 1933 and was buried in the Royal Oak Burial Park.
Ontario birth registration, Ancestry.
Marriage registration [Alexander G Rose, Ethle May Little], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registrations [Donald Alexander Rose, Ronald Davis John Rose], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Donald Alexander Rose], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Alexander G Rose], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
“A. G. Rose, 49, newspaper man, dies in Victoria,” Winnipeg Tribune, 28 March 1933, page 18.
“Dies at coast,” Winnipeg Tribune, 30 March 1933, page 2.
Obituary, Victoria Daily Colonist, 30 March 1933.
“Newspaperman is laid to rest,” Victoria Daily Colonist, 30 March 1933, page 15.
Alexander G Rose, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Hilary Rose and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 October 2026
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