Once Upon a Wedding
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Good news...Once Upon A Wedding by Nancy Millar is back!
Eliza was 15 when her father arranged a marriage to a man twice her age, She didn't know the man but she didn't object. Girls were expected to obey their fathers in those days. How did it work out?
Find out in Once Upon A Wedding. Find out also 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 horrid endings.
Once Upon A Wedding is a history book that doesn't sound or look like history. It's just another way- a pleasurable way- to learn more about Canada between 1860 and 1945.
The Unmentionable History of the West
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…published 2007 by Red Deer Press, Calgary...is a history book with a difference.
Instead of starting with dates and explorers, maps and treaties, Millar starts with the story of one Saskatchewan farmer’s long underwear in 1932.
Did that underwear get him through enough winters to make a go of his homestead? Did that underwear build the west as much as railways and one room school houses? By the same token, what about his wife? What part did her underwear play in building the west?
How did she manage her personal life when it could never be mentioned? How did all the unmentionables affect women’s lives and women’s history? It’s history from the inside out.
Once Upon A Tomb
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Stories from Canadian Graveyards, published 1997 by Fifth House, available from Fitzhenry and Whiteside.
.....In this book, Millar, aka known as the Cheerful Tombstone Tourist, describes the graveyards she found while traveling through Canada’s ten provinces and the Yukon.
It’s another way of reading a country’s history. A reviewer in the April/May 1998 Beaver Magazine said of this book,” The book is delightful: Lighthearted but not frivolous, serious but not grave.”
Once Upon an Outhouse
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...a tongue-in-cheek look back at “the little house,” the “biffy,” the “John,” you name it.
The “hole” truth about those essential buildings, gone but not forgotten! Available from Deadwood Publishing.
The Famous Five
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Five Alberta women and their fight to become persons.
...the only book that combines the biographies of Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Irene Parlby and Louise McKinney, Albertans who wanted to be Persons according to the BNA Act, with an explanation of the now famous “Persons Case.”
Millar was one of the founders of the Famous 5 Foundation in Calgary, responsible for the statues of the Famous 5 in Calgary and on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Available from Deadwood Publishing.
Remember Me As You Pass By
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...Millar’s first book on graveyards. In this one, she explores Alberta graveyards and the stories they tell. Available from Deadwood Publishing.