By Virginia (Ginny) Neish – Abbotsford, B.C. Bob and I moved to an eight-acre hobby farm in Raymore, Sask., back in 1980. We spent the first few months living in a small trailer while we completely [more…]
By Lilian (Oswell) Beynon – Lloydminster, Alta. Finding an old winter photo reminded me of the winters of my childhood in the ‘30s on the farm at Tangleflags, Sask. We lived in a log house that [more…]
By Connie Douglas – Chilliwack, B.C. Growing up on a farm near Consort in east-central Alberta, spring was always a long awaited event. I remember a special day when dad asked, “would you like to ride [more…]
By Gene Chura – Moose Jaw, Sask. The longest, most frightening, and also the most lonesome four days and four nights of my life, happened in August 1938. To this day, I vividly remember every [more…]
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 [more…]
By Shirley Farthing – Saskatoon, Sask. In August, 2018, we celebrated our 36th month – or to most people it is three years. However, because of our advanced ages (Bob is 95 and I am [more…]
By Ethel (Huber) Orthner – Kelowna, B.C. My mother was born in 1902 and died in 1994. Although she’s been gone for some time now, remembering her, I think of her hands. All she ever wore [more…]
By Franklin Vick – Prince Albert, Sask. I was born in 1929, the sixth son of Henry Vick III and Lydian Groff on the family homestead near St. Walburg, Sask. The attending midwife wanted to [more…]
By Winston Smith – Apple Hill, Ont. It was just after the first covered rink was built in Wakaw, Sask., that I played on the (almost) championship bantam hockey team. Though I can’t remember the [more…]
By Edna Ferguson – Victoria, B.C. It was morning on my grandfather’s farm. There wasn’t the usual happy chatter at the breakfast table. The wind had been blowing for two days straight and although it had [more…]
By Edith (Dolly) (Milne) McEwen – Lloydminster, Alta. Three of my brothers worked underground at a mine at Pinto, just south of Bienfait, Sask., during the 1930s. Pinto, which no longer exists, had a small [more…]
By Magdelina (Yungwirth) Bernier – St. Louis, Sask. I wish I could still climb trees like I used to as a child. My brother, Tony, and I had this one wonderful tree that grew along a [more…]
By Sylvia Williams – Summerland, B.C. There were many homesteaders from Europe living in eastern Alberta. When they left their homes in the old country, they probably didn’t realize that living in a rural area in [more…]
By Janet Reitmeier – Red Deer, Alta. Mom and dad moved the family from Apple Hill, Ont. to St. Brieux, Sask. in 1946. It was quite a change going from a dairy farm, where dad raised [more…]
By Millie (Carlson) Bruce – Matheson Island, Man. I can’t help but think that people in the 1930s and ’40s must have been happy to find humour whenever and wherever they could in such hard times. [more…]
By Ed Kabanuk – Surrey, B.C. I’d been given the task of bringing the cows home for milking. This meant going about 3⁄4 mile to the pasture at the end of our land. It wasn’t an onerous task [more…]
By Lorraine Arnott – Winnipeg, Man. On the corner of Portage and Aldine in Winnipeg, there’s a mural of a tramp on the side of a building that motorists see on their way west out [more…]
By Agnes York – Saskatoon, Sask. Before the luxury of ducted furnaces, our central heating consisted of a fuel-burning heater in the middle of the room. It was usually fuelled with wood or coal. My parents used [more…]
By June (Wacks) Patrick – Bowden, Alta. I was raised in Wilkie, Sask. It was a booming railroad town many years ago. My father was a conductor with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). We didn’t have a [more…]
By Arloa Marsh – Lanigan, Sask. We were very lucky to have a library in our town growing up during the Depression in the 1930s. My brother and I loved to read. We’d go to the library [more…]
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