What event could possibly bring two people, of different nationalities and 
background, together? Fergus Cross, a Master Mariner from England, and Jean 
Frances Glover, a secretary in Canada. What strange quirks of fate caused these 
two to meet, fall in love, and raise a family?  
At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 Fergus was a 25-year-old Chief 
Officer on a freighter running between England and Australia. Jean was a 24-
year-old secretary with Household Finance Company in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
 
   Fergus joined the Royal Air Force as a navigator in Bomber Command. This led 
to his posting to No. 33 Air Navigation School at Mount Hope Air Station in 
Hamilton, Ontario in 1941 as a navigation instructor as part of The British 
Commonwealth Air Training Plan.  


   One evening in 1941 at a dance at the Mount Hope Air Station Fergus met 
Jean. Fergus loved to dance and was quite dashing in his uniform. Wartime 
romances tended to be fairly short and it wasn?t very long afterwards that the 
two got married on April 18, 1942. 

    This Cross Family website goes back to the roots of the family in Hamilton, 
Scotland, and shows the Canadian family that grew from that 
encounter in 1941.