Once Upon a Wedding: Stories of Weddings in Western Canada, 1860-1945, for Better Or WorseBayeux 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 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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