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Excerpt from Alberta, Past and Present, Vol. 2: Historical and Biographical; Illustrated Hon. Charles Wilson Cross, a member of the Edmonton bar and for a number of years prominently connected with the political history of the province, being still a member of the provincial legislature, was born at Madoc, Hastings county, Ontario, on the 30th of November, 1872, and comes of Scotch ancestry. His father, Thomas Cross, was a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, while his mother, who in her maidenhood was Miss Maria Mouncey, was born in Canada but of Scotch parentage. Thomas Cross became a prominent merchant of Madoc and a leading man in the life of that community. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.