The Senior Paper

Scary experience has stayed with him

By Gene Chura – Moose Jaw, Sask. The longest, most frightening, and also the most lonesome four days and four nights of my life, happened in August 1938. To this day, I vividly remember every [more...]

Hauling mail led to lucrative side business

By Harold Thom – Nakusp, B.C. We were living at Candle Lake, Sask., north of Prince Albert, during the cold winter of 1946-47. Deep snowdrifts blocked the road between the lake and Meath Park, the nearest town. [more...]

Life stages measured in Christmas trees

By Russ Stewart – Victoria, B.C. William Shakespeare wrote about the seven stages (acts) of man. As far as my wife and [more...]

Calm day turned into brutal snowstorm

By Michael Bartolf – Oxbow, Sask. Recent weather events in the news has my memory drift back to a big storm we [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 International gas tractor and an eight-foot one-way discer. He arranged to have them [more…]

Rode bike all over the countryside

By Dave Shore – Carrot River, Sask. It was while growing up on a farm southeast of Carrot River, Sask. in 1956-57 that I acquired my first one-speed bike. We had quite a few acres of recently [more…]

Memories of mom’s marvellous marshmallows

Widow sang duets with ‘smart little critter’

‘Drain the pool! My engagement ring fell into the water!’

Scary experience has stayed with him

Hauling mail led to lucrative side business

Life stages measured in Christmas trees

Calm day turned into brutal snowstorm

Archive Search

How Poetic – Original Poetry

Soldier To Veteran

Life on the farm

Dad excited about his first fairly-modern tractor

Rode bike all over the countryside