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David Edward Cross
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Engineer.
Born at Winnipeg on 5 April 1939, son of Robert McIlroy “Bob” Cross and Jeane Ethelyne Webber (?-2002), he attended Kelvin High School where he was school president and captain of the football team. In 1961, he received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manitoba.
He worked as Chief Engineer for MMP Architects and Engineers and later had his own firm, D. E. Cross and Associates. He served as President of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba (1983) and the Manitoba chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). He worked on the Distant Early Warning line in Inuvik, NWT (known today as the North Warning System) and built schools in what is now Nunavut. The project of which he was most proud was the design of the HVAC system for the Nonsuch exhibit at the Manitoba Museum.
On 17 June 1961, he married schoolteacher Diane Davis at the St. Andrew's River Heights United Church and they had a daughter and a son, Steven Cross (1965-1995). He was a director of the Knowles School for Boys and a member of the DKE fraternity and St. Vital Rotary Club (at which he had a perfect attendance record).
He died at Winnipeg on 15 June 2024.
“Cross - Davis,” Winnipeg Tribune, 24 June 1961, page 38.
“President Dave Cross under scrutiny from soup to brush fires,” The Manitoba Professional Engineer Bulletin, February 1983.
Obituary [Jeane Ethelyne Cross], Winnipeg Free Press, 18 April 2002.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 22 June 2024.
We thank Doug Chapman and Eve Sankar for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 January 2026
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