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While the federal government was controlling marriage and divorce, provinces were appointed to deal with ceremonies and property rights, post-divorce, and remarriage. Officials lacked confidence in situations where decisions like divorce and marriage were the responsibility of the individuals, this led to a piecemeal system giving unhappy couples a chance out.

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Ontario was the birthplace of the slow legalization of married women's property rights. This happened in 1872, wives of the household were being given the right to control and manage their own earnings. Prior to this creation, their money would go to their spouse. Ontario also ran first in regards to the 1884 married women's property act, enabling the ability for wives to purchase property for themselves. This was most impactful in Quebec where a signature from a husband was seen as a necessary act for permission.

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In the presence of a dead mother should the deceased mother's sister who would currently be the aunt, fill in as the mother? This is sought after because of the familiarity the aunt would already have with the family and children, but others see it as incestuous and can see it possibly complicating family living dynamics. Some worried husbands might previously check out possible replacements prior to their wife's death. Regardless of discomfort, Quebec MC appealed to reform the law, this legalizing wedding abilities to husbands and diseased wifes sisters. It still stayed illegal till 1923 that wifes could not marry their dead husband's brothers.

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In 1887 a federal order in the council legally acknowledges traditional indigenous marriages. this means indigenous couples do not need to form and follow Christian wedding procedures to get married. As long as monogamy was protected indigenous marriages were honored.

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The 1897 Female refuges act gave Ontario officials the ability to arrest unmarried and impregnated women between the ages of 16-35. Hundreds of women from Ontario were incarcerated for "morality offenses" trenching through WW2 and the great depression. The women were either pregnant or had sexual relations with non-white males. Children were either raised in the cells or taken by child services.

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History was made in the Marriage and Divorce Act when Canadian women were given the right and ability to divorce men on the same playing field with cheating partners and adultery. Prior to this change in 1925, wives had to prove their spouse was not only cheating and also prove their involvement, in bigamy, bestiality, desertion, sodomy, or rape.

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Canada has no predominant law forbidding interracial marriage, this is unlike the states. While there was no legislation forbidding interracial marriage there was still a stigma following informal prejudgments. Cults like the KKK spread their ignorance in violent and grottoes demonstrations.

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While enjoying a regular morning with her father-to-be fiancé, Velma Demerson was confronted by two police officers followings her father. Demerson father sent the cops for his daughter's unwanted and forbidden behavior,  this soon deemed the pregnant Velma Demerson as incorrigible and unmanageable, she was jailed in a 7-foot cell for nine months. During her time incarcerated, she was tested and experimented on by a female doctor who had severely disturbing thoughts relating prisoners' genitals to immortality.

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After Canada's first unified divorce law was put in place this allowed for divorce in correspondence of desertion, physical, and mental abuse, imprisoned partners, and lack of propinquity through extended periods of time apart. In earlier years divorce was a lot more widespread and uncommon, people were usually notified through the paperer periods of months. Long waits for divorce finalization could only be sped up with proof of infidelity or abuse.

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The wedding of prime minister Pierre Trudeau to Margaret Sinclair taking place on March 4th 1971 was seen as Canada's royal wedding. When the marriage dissipated, Pierre Trudeau soon became the first divorced single-dad Prime Minister Canada has ever had.

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Michel Giouard and pianist Rejean Tremblay made partnerships, signed contacts, and union duties in the first widely publicized gay marriage ceremony in Canada's History. The event was held at a discotheque in downtown. The next publicized gay marriage was between Richard North and Chris Vogel they were given their certificate but constantly denied the official marriage license.