>From: "Carolyn Wallace" <[email protected]> >To: "ns roots" <[email protected]> >Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 19:47:09 -0300 > > >Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, Thursday, June 11, 1942: > >McKenna-Boyd > Two popular Antigonish young people, Miss Christina Ann Boyd, and Neil >Meagher McKenna,widely-known in Maritime hockey circles, were married Monday >morning June 8 , at St.Ninian's Cathedral. The rector, the Rev. John R. >MacDonald, uncle of the bridegroom, performed the ceremony and celebrated >Nuptial Mass. Harold McKenna and Owen McKenna who served the Mass are >brothers of the groom. > The bride, who was given in marriage by her brother, John Boyd, of >Antigonish and Sydney, was lovely in a gown of white brocaded satin with >sweetheart neck line, leg of mutton sleeves and long train shoulder-length >veil and tierra of lillies of the valley. Her Bouquet was of American Baeuty >roses. Miss Margaret Boyd who attended her sister, wore a floor-length >powder blue dress, brightened with silver sequence neck trimming. The >shoulder- length veil was of the same shade with the tierra of >forget-me-nots. Her shoes were silver. She carried a bouquet of Joanna Hill >roses. John McKenna acted as his brother's best man. > Following the ceremony, immediate relatives of the newly married couple >attended the wedding breakfast at Crystal Farm on St. George's Bay. > The bride, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Boyd was the >pre-nuptial guest of honor at a shower given by over 50 friends at the home >of Miss Mona Gorman, who assisted in opening the gifts, while Mrs. Jordan >read the verses. Mrs. McKenna ia a graduate of Mount St. Bernard Academy. > The bridegroom is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J.P. McKenna, and is >associated with his father in buisness. As first centre ice player on the >Morrison High School and Antigonish Bulldog championship hockey teams, he >won a front rank place in Maritime provinces amateur hockey circles. >(*Left some out of this-toasts etc.) >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <snip>