Articles
Rock around the Homestead
By Tom Stewart – Ottawa, Ont. “You’re going where?!” My band mates were dumbfounded when I told them my plan. They couldn’t understand why, on a gruelling tour of western Canada, I would choose to [more…]
Remains of WWI soldiers finally laid to rest
By Gavin Wood – Regina, Sask. Sgt. Archibald Wilson was born on Feb. 12, 1892 in Wilten, Stirling, Scotland. He came to Canada in the early 1900s along with several siblings and eventually they took [more...]
To the present generation, our past is ‘just a story’
By Anne (Kurkowsky) Cohoon – Wilberforce, Ont. My brother, Michael Kurkowsky, was a soldier. He was born on a farm north of the village of Hyas in east-central Saskatchewan, and attended Lake Helen School. During the [more...]
What happened next ‘shocked’ him!
By J.R. Klassen – Regina, Sask. In the late 1940s in my hometown of Aberdeen, Sask., about 25 miles (40 km) northeast of [more...]
Dances often went until early morning
By Stan Peterson – Cabri, Sask. We used to have fun dances at Venlo School near to the town of Abbey, Sask. I [more...]
