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271 pages
total,
7.5" x 9"
full color laminated cover
75 b&w photographs
retail price: $24.95
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Good
news...Once Upon A Wedding by Nancy Millar is back. It's been reprinted
and is available through Deadwood Publishing at 403-239 4509 or
nemillar@shaw.ca. It costs $24.95 plus $2.00 shipping and
handling, a total of 26.95.
It's a 271 page history book that describes weddings in Canada from
1860-1945. Why weddings? Because they reveal a great deal more about
outselves and our history than ever we realize. The stories cover the
gamut of life in those years in western Canada- immigration and
settlement of the west, homesteading, hard times, good times, success
and failure, rich and poor, life and death.
For instance, there are stories about..........
society weddings in the very early days,
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.
In fact, the stories and pictures in Once Upon A Wedding reveal the
history of the west just as much as scholarly textbooks and boring
lectures. It just doesn't seem like a history book because it tells
stories of people and what happened to them. Haven't you seen pictures
of weddings in years gone by and said...I wonder what happened to them?
Well, Once Upon a Wedding answers some of those questions.
Weddings are intended to be remembered, Millar says, which is why it
was fun to write about them. For her, they are a more
cheerful entry into history than wars, for instance, or depressions or
graveyards- another subject that she has tackled. Mind you, she sticks
up for graveyards too. "They tell stories just like weddings do," she
says, "and stories are the essence of history."
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