Articles
Local farmers smelled easy money
By Gordon McMann – Campbell River, B.C. The pool hall was considered to be a den of iniquity when I grew up. Looking back on it now, many decades later, that seems a bit unfair. Most [continue…]
Mom’s beliefs were sometimes a bit, well…
By Shirley Farthing – Saskatoon, Sask. As a child, I thought my mother was the most knowledgeable person in the whole wide world. She knew the answers to all my questions like, “why is the sky [continue...]
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 [continue...]
War’s outbreak saw mother left to raise six in a one-room house
By Angele Dalby – Penticton, B.C. When the Second World War began, the young men and women who were conscripted or volunteered [continue...]
Winnipeg ballgame crowd circa 1913
By Jim Smyth – Kipling, Sask. The faint writing on the back of this postcard states, “This is me at the opening [continue...]
Not all her Christmases were happy
By Maisie Burton – Kipling, Sask. Christmas always brings back memories of when I was a child growing up on the farm with my mother, [continue...]
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 [continue...]
