The Senior Paper

Family ‘fun’ had berry-picking and froggy funerals

By Ione Skafte – Lethbridge, Alta. At least twice a year, we traveled from Lethbridge to Speers, Sask., to visit my husband’s family. We usually did this in the summer. We’d spend a couple of [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...]

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...]

Being a war ‘groom’ was the right decision

By Mary Lloynd – Abbotsford, B.C. Royal Air Force (RAF) serviceman, Henry Lloynd had to come all the way to Canada to discover [more...]

Family farmers fond of Ford

By Art Klassen – Portage la Prairie, Man. A photo of a Fordson tractor in The Senior Paper reminded me of our Fordson tractors. In the early 1920s, my parents were living with their parents [more…]

Youngsters took a sleeping Titan for a ride

By Cy Lawrence – Melville, Sask. I was around 13 years old when World War II broke out. Being a farm boy, I was soon pressed into driving a stook team for our area. A [more…]

Family ‘fun’ had berry-picking and froggy funerals

Widow sang duets with ‘smart little critter’

Button Box reminds me of a repair era

Family ‘fun’ had berry-picking and froggy funerals

Played hockey with ‘Punch Line’ Lach

Sulfur was used to hide smell of homebrew hooch

Being a war ‘groom’ was the right decision

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