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School project was fun with dad
By Leonard Wenninger – Drayton Valley, Alta. Our teacher informed us one day that we’d be doing a paper maché project the following week. We were going to be making animals and he wanted us [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...]
Played hockey with ‘Punch Line’ Lach
By Harold Volen – Burnaby, B.C. The spring hockey playoffs take me back to Saskatchewan, and Weyburn in particular. We had the Beavers senior hockey team that did a good job in the 1930s. Names I [more...]
‘I heard a long, drawn out me-o-o-o-w’
By Ruth Towill – Fort MacLeod, Alta. It was going to be a busy morning as I planned my day: vacuum the [more...]
My childhood dream was to teach Grade 1
By Augusta ‘Gusty’ Chartrand – Regina, Sask. I taught at Bird’s Eye View School in 1953-54. A picture of the school in the [more...]
