Cyril Ogston was the founder of the hamlet

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 of Seven Persons, Alberta.

Ogston was a late-nineteenth-century Mormon

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 who practised polygamy

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 in line with his Church's teachings at the time. In 1862, the United States Congress

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 made the practice illegal, and many Mormons fled to Canada

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 in order to escape prosecution, and to set up Mormon communities there. Ogston was one of these, leaving Utah

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and founding Seven Persons.