By Carol (Swain) Crane – Medicine Hat, Alta. This morning as I was standing in front of my adjustable ironing board with my heat-regulated steam iron pressing the few articles of [continue…]
By Mathew Wozniak – Grande Prairie, Alta. From the first settlers until WWII, all land clearing was done with a grub hoe and axe. You would dig the dirt out [continue…]
By Harold Thom – Nakusp, B.C. I found two baby snowy owls beneath a big tree in our pasture. I was 13 and living on a farm near Paddockwood, Sask. [continue…]
By Peggy (Clemitson/Young) de Roaldes – Nanton, Alta. One day when I was five years old I wanted so much to have a horseback ride. I begged my mother for [continue…]
By Tina Schuitema – Edmonton, Alta. It was a hot Sunday afternoon in Regina, the wind blowing, and there were grasshoppers and potato bugs as usual. We were all lying [continue…]
By Susan Yaschuk – Biggar, Sask. Talk about modes of transportation! This is one of the ways we travelled to school, called Lizard Lake. The cart was made out of [continue…]
By Ervin Davis – Rimbey, Alta. Imagine 13 people, yes, 13 people — my parents, Maude and Percy Davis, 10 siblings and me — in a 1918 Touring Dodge car. It was [continue…]
Springfield School, near Waldheim, Sask., in 1949 marching with their banner at Field Day. Several schools would compete in high jump, broad jump, and ball games at Field Days and [continue…]
By Velda Currie – Morden, Man. Carlton Junction School was located four miles south of Carlyle in southeast Saskatchewan. My first teacher was Miss Alice Nichol. Alice now is Mrs. Van [continue…]
All that’s left is the memories of the elevators at Lacombe, Alta. This photo was taken a few days before they were torn down. Photo submitted by Cliff Swarbrick of [continue…]
By Anne (Kurkowsky) Cohoon – Wilberforce, Ont. My brother, Michael Kurkowsky, was a soldier. He was born on a farm north of the village of Hyas in east-central Saskatchewan, and attended [continue…]
2 cups diced cooked chicken 2 cups cooked rice 1 cup mayonnaise (approximately) 1-1⁄2 cups diced red apples 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 cup diced celery 1 cup seedless green [continue…]
By Marylene (Ring) Sweitzer – Regina, Sask. The story by George Findlay in the June 2012 issue of The Senior Paper prompted me to write. His father was the doctor in Lemberg, [continue…]
By Glenn Jack – Regina, Sask. I grew up on a farm in the Wimborne area northeast of Calgary. Some of my memories were driving a tractor at 10 years old on [continue…]
By Jacob P. Siemens – Niverville, Man. I was teaching in a rural one-room country school four miles west of Altona, Man. The school had Grades 1 to 10 with [continue…]
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