‘Buffalo chips’ used as fire fuel

By Esther Wake – Penticton, B.C. A day in life in the 1930s at Brownlee in central Saskatchewan was hot and dry with duststorms and worms. We couldn’t afford coal or wood for cooking, so we took an old washtub and fork out to the pasture to gather buffalo chips (cow manure). These made a [continue...]

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Hen grabbed toy butterfly

By Maxine Adair – Harris, Sask. As a preschooler, on the farm, I found amusement everywhere: the chickens came out for the morning scratching, the geese were on their way [continue…]

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