Article content 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. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. 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.