Once Upon a Wedding: Stories of Weddings in Western Canada, 1860-1945, for Better Or Worse

Forside
Bayeux Arts, 2000 - 271 sider
"Find out about the west's first society weddings, mail order brides, honeymoon trips from hell, no honeymoons at all, wedding dresses from the catalogue, double weddings, wartime weddings, picture brides and grooms, happy-ever-after endings and perfectly horrible endings. It's a history book that doesn't sound like a history book. A pleasurable way of learning more about Canada between 1860 and 1945."--

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The 1860s
7
Life along the edges Mounties to the middle the late bridegroom
29
New Canadians by the boatload gold diggers by Bonanza wives for sale
53
Sister Marys husband two new provinces a secret wife rubber boots
81
War brides and VC winners from Eyebrow to Elbow a Paris original
115
Old Country weddings made new new fangled airplane weddings
151
The Great Depression hard luck weddings groom in the bushes
201
War again Elsie the Ironworker a famous trial
241
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