June 8th 1919, 20 year-old Lucienne Dora Eugene stepped down from the train on Main Street Winnipeg and into the arms of 37 year-old Lorne Arthur Ranson. Lucienne was accompanied by a couple she had met on the ship over from England Mr.. and Mrs. George Pinkus. The happy couple and their entourage then went directly to St. Mary’s Catholic Church where, it being a Sunday, and regular services were being held, they had to wait in the anti-room to be married.
After the small ceremony that was witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. deBrules (Lorne’s half sister Ida and her husband) they went to Lorne’s mother’s house at 46 Ellen Street.
They bypassed a crowd estimated at 10,000 strikers gathered to hear a speech by Rev. John Woodward (One of the originators of Canada’s NDP Labour party) Lucienne and Lorne spent their first few married weeks hunkered down inside Marie Mulligan’s house on Ellen Street while the Winnipeg General Strike ran it’s course.
Rick Ranson 