Articles
‘Porky’ shared his home with me
By Harold Thom – Nakusp, B.C. I spent the winter of 1948-49 working in a logging camp near The Pas, Man. It must have been the coldest darn place on earth, but I was 17 [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...]
Antique Automobile
1925 Model-T Ford owned by Charles Turner of Killarney, Man., when he was 18 years old. It had 450/75-21 tires. His dad [continue...]
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 [continue...]
Played hockey with ‘Punch Line’ Lach
By Harold Volen – Burnaby, B.C. The spring hockey playoffs take me back to Saskatchewan, and Weyburn in particular. We had the Beavers senior hockey [continue...]
Fresno operator did two-man job alone
By Mathew Wozniak – Grande Prairie, Alta. When I was a Grade 3 student at Wanham, Alta., School in 1935, the Department of Highways erected [continue...]
