A. E. Cross
| Alfred Ernest Cross | |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories | |
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In office 1898–1902 |
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| Constituency | East Calgary |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 26, 1861 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | March 10, 1932 (aged 70) Alberta, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Rothney MacLeod (m. 1899) |
| Residence | Alberta, Canada |
| Occupation | politician, rancher, brewer |
Alfred Ernest Cross (June 26, 1861 – March 10, 1932) was a Canadian politician, rancher and brewer, known as one of the Big Four who founded the Calgary Stampede in 1912.
Born in Montreal, Cross was the oldest of seven children. He trained as a veterinary surgeon.
Cross moved to Alberta in 1884 to work at a ranch near what is now Cochrane, Alberta owned by Matthew Henry Cochrane.
In 1899 he married Helen Rothney Macleod (1878-1959), daughter of North-West Mounted Police Commissioner James Macleod.
By 1886 Cross owned his own ranch, the A7 Ranche, located near what is now Nanton, Alberta.
Cross returned to Montreal for hospital treatment for appendicitis. He returned to Calgary in 1891 holding a diploma that he had been trained as a brewer’s apprentice and established the Calgary Brewing and Malting Company, the first brewery in what was then the Northwest Territories.
That same year Calgary’s oldest and most exclusive club, the Ranchmen’s Club, was established; and A.E. Cross was a founding member.
In 1898, Cross entered politics, and was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for East Calgary. In 1899 he married Helen Rothney Macleod, the daughter of Colonel James F. Macleod, the lawman who gave Calgary its name.
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