The Senior Paper

You can take the girl out of the country…

By Fay Morningstar – Stoney Creek, Ont. I sometimes find it difficult to know if I’m a country girl or a city girl. My birth certificate says I was born in Saskatchewan, so I must [more...]

Prairie-raised mother was petrified of those steep hills

By Lillian (Bohnen) Rose – Calgary, Alta. My father, a carpenter by trade, with the help of my older sister, built our second house in B.C., on the only flat piece of land that we owned [more...]

Depression-era journey was an adventure

By John Seierstad – Nanaimo, B.C. My life was filled with hard work, travel, and adventure, however, none can remotely match the [more...]

Sulfur was used to hide smell of homebrew hooch

By Emil Eirich – Saskatoon, Sask. Stories in The Senior Paper about homebrew reminded me about my father, Dave, and my Uncle Gust [more...]

Bossy cow was no match for Rover

By Ed Kabanuk – Surrey, B.C. I’d been given the task of bringing the cows home for milking. This meant going about 3⁄4 mile to the pasture at the end of our land. It wasn’t an onerous task [more…]

Horse led her through brutal snowstorm

By Marina Antonenko – Saskatoon, Sask. It was a fine fall morning. We’d decided to process some turkeys and take them from the farm into Saskatoon to sell the next day. We had raised over [more…]

RCAF Pilot’s D-Day Letter to Young Wife: A Timeless Love Story

Widow sang duets with ‘smart little critter’

We went by way of closed-in sleigh

You can take the girl out of the country…

Prairie-raised mother was petrified of those steep hills

Depression-era journey was an adventure

Sulfur was used to hide smell of homebrew hooch

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Bossy cow was no match for Rover

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