A MARRIAGE AND TILLAGE SETTLENE TSCHEME COMBINED.
— — "-. The details of an e^traqi^wjayy o marriage scheme which has just bjeen concluded have now transpired ' fs£ Montreal, and the affair is attracting! a great deal of attention owing to -tieQ novelty of the proposal. The »cHeme | has b69n launched in connection wilt a large contingent of settlers of French ■birth or extraction who have come from Michigan, and have been gathered together by a priest named Father JPaxadiß. They are now prepaiiDg to for Semiceamingue, in the province of Quebec, where lands have been secured. Among the colonists are 200 bachelors and an equal nua&sr of maideiißiwho4i*r© se?ei|aliy enil^bd to be married, jputtlieij vreddiDge b»|*# not yet taien- placd because of poverty. ' Father Paradis, to urge each pouple to join tbe colonists, promised to each a farm, and to have a great marriage ceremony in public, when the whole 400 are to be married at the same time. On this condition they joined.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXI, Issue 3268, 24 May 1895, Page 6
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161A MARRIAGE AND TILLAGE SETTLENE TSCHEME COMBINED. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXI, Issue 3268, 24 May 1895, Page 6
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