Canada: MANITOBA: Off the List

For the last four leap years the Winnipeg Tribune had listed Garnet Coulter among the city's most eligible bachelors. He looked like a fixture. A man who enjoyed duck hunting and poker sessions with the boys, he was thought to be an impregnable singleton. Besides, Garnet Coulter, mayor since 1942, had a big city (pop. 351,900) to run.

Last July, when Garnet Coulter, 65, played host to the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities, he gallantly and persistently squired the Federation's Executive Director Jessica Allan, 43, around town (TiME, July 21). Winnipeggers put it down to official business. But when the pert Montreal divorcee stayed on for a few days, Winnipeggers began to swap nods and becks and wreathed smiles.

Last November Coulter bought a roomy house on fashionable Wellington Crescent. Last week, when Coulter asked Alderman Charles Simonite to fill his place for ten days; his city knew what was up.

At week's end, in Rosemere, Quebec, with daughter Roberta Gail, 16, as maid of honor, Jessica Allan was married in dusty pink to Garnet Coulter in a blue-striped double-breasted. Mrs. Coulter told newsmen that she had no idea where the honeymoon would be spent, but the mayor had "quite a few problems" to attend to back home. In Winnipeg the City Council got set for a bang-up reception, cagily waited to see what the Coulters would like for a present.