The Senior Paper

Prairie pipe band gave a royal performance

By James McWilliams – Surrey, B.C. I grew up in Moose Jaw until I joined the Canadian Army the day after my 18th birthday. After years as a soldier, then a student at three universities, a [more...]

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...]

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

By Betty Rugg – Elstow, Sask. It was in about 1971 or 1972 that my husband Barry and I took our two [more...]

Strong bonds of friendship were made

By Lorna (Rogers) Finstad – Armstrong, B.C. Harry Milan Finstad served active duty from July 1941 to Feb. 11, 1946 in England, Burma, and [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…]

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…]

Summons for jury set off a flurry of worry

Widow sang duets with ‘smart little critter’

Hobby farm was ‘happiest 15 years’ of her life

Prairie pipe band gave a royal performance

Family ‘fun’ had berry-picking and froggy funerals

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

Strong bonds of friendship were made

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The piano sailed up and into the loft

Dad thought I’d been attacked by bear