By John Moyles – Regina, Sask. Air travel in the 1950s was much different than it is today. Aircraft were smaller, passenger numbers were less, and there was still a feeling of adventure and novelty in [more…]
By Hilda Zaiser – Winnipeg, Man. Over the last few years, I’ve noticed a definite decline in the sending of Christmas cards. Many people have stopped sending cards altogether. Some prefer email. That’s understandable considering it’s [more…]
By Michael Bartolf – Oxbow, Sask. Recent weather events in the news has my memory drift back to a big storm we had in March 1947 at Oxbow, Sask. It started on a beautiful, warm [more…]
By Harold Thom – Nakusp, B.C. We were living at Candle Lake, Sask., north of Prince Albert, during the cold winter of 1946-47. Deep snowdrifts blocked the road between the lake and Meath Park, the nearest town. [more…]
By Gladys McCarthy – Tisdale, Sask. I’ve always loved to hear the words “home for Christmas,” whether in a song or even an advertisement. I remember so well the first Christmas I couldn’t be home [more…]
By Maisie Burton – Kipling, Sask. Christmas always brings back memories of when I was a child growing up on the farm with my mother, dad, and several brothers and sisters. Preparation for Christmas always [more…]
By Naden Hewko – Macklin, Sask. We knew Christmas was coming when the teacher at our Paynton, Sask., school started to prepare us for the annual concert. The brick school had four classrooms, two on the [more…]
By George Rose – Calgary, Alta. Six months after joining the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) at Medicine Hat as a wiper cleaning train engines, I was a student fireman travelling from there to Swift Current, [more…]
Harvesttime in the early 1950s. (Top) Ernest Oddan is pictured on the binder and Leonard Oddan is on the homemade tractor. Raymond Oddan did most of the work building it, while brothers, Lawrence, Edward, Ernest, and [more…]
By Gusty Chartrand – Regina, Sask. I had an Eaton’s beauty doll. Mine was tall, about 12 or 14-inches. All her joints were movable: hips, knees, elbows, and hands. If you placed her legs just so, [more…]
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 [more…]
By Ethel (Spillett) Anderson – Calgary, Alta. The following are excerpts from letters and diaries written by my father, Sgt. E.J. Spillett, 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion (South Saskatchewan) during WWI. The memoirs were written while on [more…]
By Tom Newcomb – Kamloops, B.C. As a boy growing up on a farm in the Ridgedale, Sask. area, I’d planned on making the navy my lifetime career. I joined at age 17. As a boy [more…]
By William Ruf – Prairie View, Sask. I was 21 years old when called to the army on April 17, 1941. I reported in Regina to the Regina Rifle Regiment and then went to Calgary [more…]
By Garth Combs – Airdrie, Alta. I was born on Sept. 10, 1922 at Deloraine, Man., and joined the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Regiment on Jan. 6, 1942. I was a rifleman in 7th Platoon of ‘A’ [more…]
By Lorraine (DeBruyne) Weise – Gibbons, Alta. Private Thomas Ernest Hone (1896-1917) was killed in action during WWI. Thomas Hone was an uncle of my late husband, Allan Weise. Thomas was the brother of Allan’s [more…]
By Grace (Huckabay) Haugen – Sundre, Alta. On the homestead at Meadow Lake, Sask., where my parents lived for 20 years, in the Dunfield school district, we had horses, cows, pigs, a dog, and cat. [more…]
By Dorothy McLeod – Saskatoon, Sask. My husband, Keith, was the third eldest in a family of 13 children, two of whom died in infancy. At a very early age, he went to work and [more…]
By Lorna (Rogers) Finstad – Armstrong, B.C. Harry Milan Finstad served active duty from July 1941 to Feb. 11, 1946 in England, Burma, and India. During WWII, hundreds of young women and men left their families and [more…]
By Yvette Desnoyers Hayes – Fruitvale, B.C. My father, Eugene Desnoyers, was born Sept. 2, 1898. He lied about his age so he could get into the Canadian army. At 17, he could easily pass as [more…]
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