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Prairie-raised mother was petrified of those steep hills

By Lillian (Bohnen) Rose – Calgary, Alta. My father, a carpenter by trade, with the help of my older sister, built our second house in B.C., on the only flat piece of land that we owned [more...]

Dad thought I’d been attacked by bear

By Edwin Bronsch – High River, Alta. At the age of 18, the stage of life when a teenager thinks himself invincible, I was riding horseback to take dad’s cattle to the summer pasture, about four [more...]

Young men volunteered for war service

By Lorraine (DeBruyne) Weise – Gibbons, Alta. Private Thomas Ernest Hone (1896-1917) was killed in action during WWI. Thomas Hone was an [more...]

Uncle froze getting her to hospital

By Loretta Oddan – Medicine Hat, Alta. My dad had an auction sale in 1947 with his friend Jack Heilman. They needed money [more...]

Foreclosed-on farmers refused to leave

By Scotty Wells – Scarborough, Ont. I was born on a rented farm six miles southeast of Rapid City, Man., in 1930. In April 1937, dad managed to buy a bank-foreclosed farm two miles southeast of [more…]

The piano sailed up and into the loft

By Elva Paton – Moose Jaw, Sask. The 1910s and early ‘20s had good crop conditions. Dad thought he was in good enough financial shape to build some new buildings. He’d always said that a [more…]

Heavy horse team had father fixing a lot of harnesses

Widow sang duets with ‘smart little critter’

Parents taught of love and care for animals

Prairie-raised mother was petrified of those steep hills

Dad thought I’d been attacked by bear

Young men volunteered for war service

Uncle froze getting her to hospital

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