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“Santa” parcel arrived in the nick of time

By Phila Munn – Oxbow, Sask. We were a very poor and unhappy family by the Christmas of 1960. Mum and us kids were on our own. I was the eldest at 12, then my [continue...]

Parents brought Ukrainian customs to Canada

By Naden Hewko – Macklin, Sask. My parents immigrated to Canada from Ukraine in the late 1920s, bringing their ethnic customs with them. We especially loved the Holy Supper shared the evening before Christmas Day. [continue...]

‘We were five disappointed children’

By Mary (Thompson) Savage – Terrace, B.C. Our family moved from Northern Ontario to Orillia during the summertime. My older brother, Bill, was [continue...]

Lifetime of sewing traced back to mom’s lessons

By Marie Siemens – Nanaimo, B.C. “Behind every successful seamstress lies a mountain of scraps,” so read a declaration sitting on the checkout [continue...]

Most families owned several crocks

By Hazel Miskew – Viking, Alta. When the government took over Golden Valley Dairy Farm to grow vegetables for a prison camp of 5,000 men [continue...]

Kind lady aided lad with ‘shaking red material’

By Steve Sipos – Thunder Bay, Ont. In November 1937, my mother, my older brother, Joe, and I, amid copious tears from relatives and friends, [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…]

Reunited with twin pen pal!

Hello Readers: When I was a teenager, I corresponded with a twin pen pal, but as I grew older and got married, our correspondence fell by the wayside. Two years ago, shortly before our 80th [continue…]

Found a new pen pal

Hi Folks: My story about my family was printed in the July/August 2012 edition of The Senior Paper and much to my delight, I received a very special pen pal because of it. Her name [continue…]