Rafael Edward Cruz was born on December 22, 1970,[REF][REF] at Foothills General Hospital[REF][REF] in Calgary, Alberta, to parents Eleanor Elizabeth (née Darragh) Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz y Díaz [REF].
At the time of his birth, Cruz's parents had lived in Calgary for three years and were working in the oil business as owners of a seismic-data processing firm for oil drilling [REF].