The Senior Paper

Brother was a big Slim Wilson fan

By Gerald Erickson – Sundre, Alta. My dad and mother homesteaded north of Big River, Sask., in the spring of 1932. There were 11 children then, which increased to 15 by 1940. There were eight [more...]

Eggs-perimenting with fowl participants!

By Franklin Vick – Prince Albert, Sask. I was born in 1929, the sixth son of Henry Vick III and Lydian Groff on the family homestead near St. Walburg, Sask. The attending midwife wanted to [more...]

Christmas memories of a school long gone

By P. Gail Harrod – Ottawa, Ont. In the late 1940s, Wetmore School in Regina was a large, well-built school spread over an [more...]

Dad excited about his first fairly-modern tractor

By Ralph Barker – North Battleford, Sask. In 1945, my father, John (Jack) Barker of Sandwith, Sask., found and bought an W4 [more...]

To bee or not to bee was the question on a hot August day!

By Ernie Reimer – Fort St. John, B.C. I was hobby farmer, sure. An apiarist? No way. I tried to be though and it almost cost me dearly. Somehow, we, as supposedly superior beings, have never [more…]

Young life was busy and happy for these farm kids

By Margaret (Kopeck) Gentle – Saskatoon, Sask. I started dressing and playing with our orange Tabby cat after I lost my rag doll. I’d left it in the farm yard and a horse stepped on it [more…]

Heavy horse team had father fixing a lot of harnesses

Widow sang duets with ‘smart little critter’

WWII service took Canadian all over Europe

Brother was a big Slim Wilson fan

Eggs-perimenting with fowl participants!

Christmas memories of a school long gone

Dad excited about his first fairly-modern tractor

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