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Her school memories marked by bullying, loneliness

By Teena (Wasylciw) Feniak – Fairview, Alta. I was born in 1941, in a log house in Worsley, Alta. The little school where I first attended was close to our place. I would walk there [continue...]
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Spoiled dish got its just desserts

By Celine Lebeau – Holland, Man. Many years ago, when I had four young daughters and a husband to feed, I was rushed making supper. I was stirring the tapioca pudding when I realized I [continue...]
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‘I observed enemy aircraft in the area’

By Robert Hislop – Shellbrook, Sask. I joined the army, light infantry, in Saskatoon on Nov. 18, 1941. I was Private L3017. I took basic training in Saskatoon and Jolliette, Quebec. I celebrated my 21st birthday [continue...]
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They had fun sliding down hills on cardboard

By Mary Olson – Athabasca, Alta. As a small girl, I remember winters with deep snow. It would pile up in drifts against the trees in a small pasture in our yard, that, in the summer, [continue...]
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Dusty old game finds new life

By Hilda Zaiser – Winnipeg, Man. During a fleeting moment of ambition, I decided to create some order in my messy storage room. As I was tidying the shelves, I came across my old Scrabble game. [continue...]
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First nephew was a ‘love child’

By Lillian Egan – West Vancouver, B.C. My nephew, Alan Buchanan, was delivered on a cold, wintry November night in Saskatchewan by a capable Swiss midwife, Miss Dubraska. My brother Bud came home very excited, [continue...]
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Hired man’s fragrant folly

By Anne Heil – Lemberg, Sask. One year my father, Peter Bartsch, hired a man for the summer months on the farm where I grew up, two miles north of Salvador in west-central Saskatchewan. The [continue...]
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‘Come to my arms!’

By Marjorie Laube – Springside, Sask. I remember how the men used to ride on top of the freight trains looking for work. There was one day that especially stands out in my memory. My [continue...]
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‘Bossy’ no match for ‘Rover’

By Ed Kabanuk – Surrey, B.C. I had been given the task of bringing the cows home for milking. This meant going about a 3⁄4 mile to the pasture at the end of our land. It wasn’t an [continue...]
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Got a flying saucer for Christmas

By Delwyn Jansen – Humboldt, Sask. Our family farm home is situated along a creek that eventually runs into the Quill Lakes. The location’s combination of a machine shed plus the yard shelterbelt resulted in a [continue...]

Mail hauling led to lucrative side business

By Harold Thom – Nakusp, B.C. We were living at Candle Lake, Sask., north of Prince Albert, during the cold winter [continue...]

‘Newcomers wore strange clothes’

By Dorothy (Miller) Hunsley – Mississauga, Ont. I was six years old and eagerly waiting to start school when a family [continue...]

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…]

Ukrainian Orthodox church choir sings in six churches throughout Manitoba. Its members are (left) Victor Lomaszkiewicz, Phyllis Kurchaba, Helen Storozuk, Dianna Sotas, and Louis Storozuk. – Photo from Louis Storozuk of [continue…]

Historical house of finance

This CIBC banking centre at Radville in south central Saskatchewan is a grand historic building and an example of early 20th century prairie architecture.

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‘Winners Never Quit’

Tiny tyke footballers are colourfully depicted by artist Judy Crawford of Regina, Sask., in her [continue...]
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Splendour in Spalding

Nature scenes adorn the facade of this building in Spalding, Sask. They are a colourful [continue...]
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Breakfast banter

Nettie Selland of Edmonton and Herb Bowditch of Sherwood Park, Alta., enjoyed conversing at the [continue...]
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Giving ‘er a good pull!

Doug Pearson of Saskatoon, Sask., applies plenty of human-power in starting this Fairbanks Morse 12 [continue...]
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Whist-ful players

Playing whist at the Saskatchewan Senior Fitness Association (SSFA) games in Saskatoon were (l-r) Eleanor [continue...]
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Show & Shine Chevy

Tinkering under the hood of his 1951 Chevy half-ton was Paul Wendt of Moose Jaw, [continue...]
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Prairie parade puck pack!

Kids from Assiniboia, Sask. minor hockey team were decked out in their ‘Stinger’ team jerseys [continue...]
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Early pioneer home diorama

Setting of a pioneer Ukrainian house displayed at the Western Development Museum in Yorkton.
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Praire pride parade

Dozens of colourful entries entertained local residents and hundreds of visitors in a July 2012 [continue...]
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Humboldt Hockey Legend

Proudly on display in Humboldt, Sask., Museum is autographed jersey of hometown hockey legend, Glenn [continue...]

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