James Ross (9 May 1835 – 20 September 1871) was a Metis journalist, lawyer, and member of the provisional government established by Louis Riel during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870. He graduated with honours from the University of Toronto in 1857. He also received a Master of Arts from the same university later in 1865. He was the Métis son of Scottish immigrant author and Hudson's Bay Company fur trader/administrator Alexander Ross and Sarah (Timentwa),an Okanagan tribal woman. James married Margaret Smith in Toronto on 18 May 1858.