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Laid out on an old-fashioned iron bedstead is a bride’s wedding-night trousseau – a pretty chemise and pantaloons, trimmed with white lace and tied with pink ribbons, handmade by her in anticipation of a couple’s future together.
A future that never was to be.
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Shortly before Alice Kirk’s 1918 nuptials, the Central Elgin fiancée’s groom-to-be was dead.
He was one of approximately 55,000 Canadians felled by the Spanish flu in a worldwide pandemic.
And Alice Kirk was to remain unmarried for the rest of her life.
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