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Breakfast banter
Nettie Selland of Edmonton and Herb Bowditch of Sherwood Park, Alta., enjoyed conversing at the pancake breakfast for the 100th anniversary of Success, Saskatchewan.
Former sweethearts marry 62 years later
By Skip Fennessy – Fort Steele, B.C. Our story began in 1953 when two young ladies from White Fox, Sask., Ann Pawluck and Hazel Moonie, arrived in Cranbrook, B.C. They both found work at the St. Eugene [continue...]
Remains of WWI soldiers finally laid to rest
By Gavin Wood – Regina, Sask. Sgt. Archibald Wilson was born on Feb. 12, 1892 in Wilten, Stirling, Scotland. He came to Canada in the early 1900s along with several siblings and eventually they took homesteads [continue...]
‘Teams’ nostrils and muzzles were whiskered in white’
By Gerald Richards – Brandon, Man. It happened often in my youth: it happened after a house party; after Christmas day at Grandma Duncan’s; after a Christmas concert at the village hall; after a card [continue...]
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 [continue...]
Sad looking dog was loyal family member
By Sylvia Williams – Summerland, B.C. It all began when I was in high school when I was about 16. We lived in an isolated area northeast of Edmonton, so I had to go to school [continue...]
Remember a slower-paced world?
Hi Everybody: My parents started their farming career on the Elmer farm 4-1⁄2 miles east of Viceroy, Sask. in a T. Eaton package home, #55, in the fall of 1925. I remember very little about [continue...]
She thought he was teasing her
I received my Happy Face Pen today from The Senior Paper. I was surprised it arrived so soon because we had just received our February issue the day before. I didn’t notice I was a winner [continue...]
Can relate to so much in The Senior Paper
Greetings: There are so many things in The Senior Paper that I can relate to. I read it over and over again. The men in my family don’t write letters. Now, computers have made it [continue...]
Reconnected after 50-plus years
Dear Readers: Thanks to The Senior Paper I heard from someone whom I worked for on my first job as a salesclerk in the F.W. Woolworth’s store in North Battleford, Sask. My boss was Keith [continue...]
Heard Vancouver ship explosion
Hi Folks: I was very interested by the story in the November (2013) issue by Walter Melnyk referring to the ship explosion in Vancouver at CPR Pier C. I, too, was there to witness the [continue...]
