Why observing Remembrance Day is now more important than ever
Nov 11, 2020
Major General Cameron Ross
Why observing Remembrance Day is now more important than ever

Major-General (ret’d) Cam Ross has had 40 years of military service including as the Colonel of the Regiment of Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians). Formerly a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and senior UN official in Syria, he was Force Commander of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel 1998-2000. He also served with the UN in Cyprus (UNFICYP) during the 1974 war; in Angola (UNAVEM) as a Military Observer, as well as the Chief of Staff during the 1993 war; and, at the UN HQ in New York. Commands included Land Forces Atlantic Area (5 Division), the Combat Training Centre, CFBs Gagetown and Edmonton, and LdSH(RC).

Private sector experience includes being Team Leader for strategic security reviews of nine Caribbean countries, VP for International Relations for Emergo Canada, and senior military advisor for EnCana.

His governance undertakings have included: Chairman of the Board of the Strathcona Society, Director of the Calgary Military Museums Society, Director of Canada West Military Museums, Director Canada West Military Museums, Director of ‘No Stone Left Alone’, Governor on the Board of the Victoria, the Islands, and Yukon Corps of Commissionaires, President of the Victoria Branch of the Canadian International Council, and Director of General Magnetic International Inc.

His involvement in academia has included: Executive Fellow of the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, and a member of the Selection Committee of DND’s Security Defence Forum. Major-General Ross is a Life Member of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps Association, a Life Member of the Royal Military College Club of Canada, a former member of the Royal United Services Institute of Vancouver Island, and a member of the Union Club of Victoria.

We ask that members come prepared to talk about their relatives who have served in conflict zones or lost their lives in conflict.