The Senior Paper

Blistering shot found its mark!

By Winston Smith – Apple Hill, Ont. It was just after the first covered rink was built in Wakaw, Sask., that I played on the (almost) championship bantam hockey team. Though I can’t remember the [more...]

‘I pawed great handfuls of packed gumbo mud’

By J. Alvin Speers – Calgary, Alta. During the summer of 1959, my dad accompanied me on a holiday trip return to the West. Single at the time, I was living at my parents’ home [more...]

Mother’s deck possessed a special touch of warmth

By Bonnie Baxter – Thunder Bay, Ont. It was more than just a mere bundle of boards fastened together to form a [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...]

Foreclosed-on farmers refused to leave

By Scotty Wells – Scarborough, Ont. I was born on a rented farm six miles southeast of Rapid City, Man., in 1930. In April 1937, dad managed to buy a bank-foreclosed farm two miles southeast of [more…]

Mom couldn’t keep track of so many of us

By Grace (Huckabay) Haugen – Sundre, Alta. On the homestead at Meadow Lake, Sask., where my parents lived for 20 years, in the Dunfield school district, we had horses, cows, pigs, a dog, and cat. [more…]

Remember the sights, smells, and sounds of summer?

Widow sang duets with ‘smart little critter’

Girls harnessed cow as Halloween prank

Blistering shot found its mark!

‘I pawed great handfuls of packed gumbo mud’

Mother’s deck possessed a special touch of warmth

Sulfur was used to hide smell of homebrew hooch

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