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.