The Senior Paper

Christmas memories of a school long gone

By P. Gail Harrod – Ottawa, Ont. In the late 1940s, Wetmore School in Regina was a large, well-built school spread over an entire city block on Wallace Street. I was in Grade 4 the year [more...]

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...]

Young man was travel weary, hungry, and lonely

By Tina Schuitema – Edmonton, Alta. It was a hot Sunday afternoon in Regina. The wind was blowing and there were grasshoppers [more...]

‘A wave of pride went through all of us’

By Bernie Dawson – Saskatoon, Sask. When I was growing up, I never really became too involved or thought too much about Nov. [more...]

Puny porker was a farmyard fugitive

By Anne Sturby – Edmonton, Alta. Every time I watch the movie Babe, I am reminded of the predicament my father found himself in with a pig he purchased from a local farmer for the [more…]

Ploughing unearthed rare archaeological find

By Marlene Eddy Gray – Abbotsford, B.C. In 1950, my parents, David and Margaret Eddy were farming a large acreage at 590 Johnston Road in Sullivan, B.C., on the northwest corner of what is now [more…]

Summons for jury set off a flurry of worry

Widow sang duets with ‘smart little critter’

“Santa” parcel arrived in the nick of time

Christmas memories of a school long gone

Scary experience has stayed with him

Young man was travel weary, hungry, and lonely

‘A wave of pride went through all of us’

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