ABSTRACT
Arthur Herring, Mrs. Crart’s son, married Frances Elizabeth, an Englishwoman who became a popular novelist, writing extensively about early pioneer experiences in British Columbia’s lower mainland. In her lightly fictionalised account of life in the Columbia Detachment, Mrs. Herring includes an account of the wedding of her sister-in-law, Sarah Sophia, [Mrs. Crart’s daughter from her first marriage] which undoubtedly reflects the kinds of tribulations faced by military brides in the empire’s far flung reaches.
