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Re: Canadian arranged marriages?
« Reply #27 on: Wednesday 21 September 16 18:13 BST (UK) »
You would have been right in a way a-l. It looks as if Alice Sutton was actually Alice Eliza and became the Mrs Gale that Mabel gave as her aunt. The fact that her son married an Eliza and it was that Eliza and the son who were witnesses threw me.

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« Reply #28 on: Wednesday 21 September 16 18:26 BST (UK) »
An article on Canadian Heroines (interesting read) but it does mention there were 6,000 women who went to Canada between 1908 - 1924 through arranged marriages. The Japenese women were married by proxy in Japan after exchanging photos by mail  ;)

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« Reply #29 on: Wednesday 21 September 16 18:34 BST (UK) »
That's an interesting story, Sandra. You wouldn't think that sort of thing happened as late as the 1920s would you?
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