Ross K. Ladd is a former civil servant and an anglophone rights activist from Cowansville in Quebec's Eastern Townships.
While the rail line from Newport southward remains in operation as the Washington County Railroad, the only onward Canadian rail connection at Newport is westward through Richford, Vermont via a branch of the now-bankrupt Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway which joins that company's mainline between Cowansville and Farnham, Quebec.