presents
I Do: Love and Marriage in 19th Century Canada
This web exhibition presents a glimpse into the challenges that people faced in finding a marriage partner in days gone by.
"Exhibition features include the digitized letters and journal entries of Mary Westcott and Louis-Joseph-Amédée Papineau. Included in the exhibition is correspondence from the personal files of William Donnelly, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Kathleen Blake Coleman and the Woodside family.This web exhibition presents a glimpse into the challenges that people faced in finding a marriage partner in days gone by.
Accompanying the exhibition is a nominal database with digitized microfilm images of more than 10,000 Upper and Lower Canada marriage bonds. Bonds issued in Upper Canada (Ontario) cover the years 1803 through to 1865, while bonds issued in Lower Canada (Quebec) cover the years 1779 to 1858 (See Further Research for a bibliography). "
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