By Olga (Lukawesky) Hrycun – Penticton, B.C. My first posting as a teacher in Alberta was in 1942 at Hollow Lake School. The school was one mile west of the post office and 10 miles north [more…]
By Mickey Death – Lethbridge, Alta. My dad, Joe Graw, met the spirited Calgary city girl, Eleanor Barry, at his sister’s and her brother’s wedding. It was love at first sight and they were married after [more…]
By Marie Siemens – Nanaimo, B.C. “Behind every successful seamstress lies a mountain of scraps,” so read a declaration sitting on the checkout counter of a fabric store I visited several years ago. Immediately I wished [more…]
By Sue Frissell – Wainwright, Alta. Good advice came from my grandpa back in the early 1940s, while we were living in the country near Windsor, Ontario. One summer afternoon had been very sultry, the [more…]
By Madeline Kallio – Kanata, Ont. A number of companies that sold baking items also offered free cookbooks once upon a time. My mother’s kitchen always had a Red Rose cookbook. Knox offered a free [more…]
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 Lake Helen School. During the [more…]
By ELSIE (Horgas) CARRICK – Moose Jaw, Sask. Although more than six decades have passed and many miles separate us, Maxwelton School draws me like a magnet whenever I’m in the area. A feeling of [more…]
By Helen Atkinson – Leduc, Alta. As little children, my sister and I sat low in the backseat of the car on our way to our grandma’s farm. Our heads were just high enough to [more…]
By Russell Sparrow – Brandon, Man. Circumstances arose in the fall of 1937 and we had to move from Harding Man., to a farm at Roseneath approximately 40 miles away. Our family consisted of my [more…]
By Greta (Andersen) Huot – Spruce Grove, Alta. In May, 1951, our high school principle in Calmar, Alta., informed our senior class of eight students there was a shortage of teachers in the Clover Bar [more…]
By Leonard Wenninger – Drayton Valley, Alta. Our teacher informed us one day that we’d be doing a paper maché project the following week. We were going to be making animals and he wanted us [more…]
By Russ Stewart – Victoria, B.C. At 15, I was the “boy of all work” in the pharmacy in my hometown in 1946. I had many an adventure and many a learning experience there, though [more…]
By Edwin Bronsch – High River, Alta. At the age of 18, the stage of life when a teenager thinks himself invincible, I was riding horseback to take dad’s cattle to the summer pasture, about four [more…]
By Vic Henry – Salmon Arm, B.C. I was about eight years old in 1930 and I remember we had a really good crop to bring in on our farm near Coronation, Alta. It was [more…]
By Walter Melnyk – Fort Saskatchewan, Alta. I was stationed in Victoria, B.C. in 1945. Four friends and I decided to go to Vancouver because we had a few days off. We were booked in [more…]
By Mary (Potorieko) Yawney – Raymond, Alta. My father was born in Ukraine in 1888. He was called to the army when he was 22, and served to the end of the First World War. [more…]
By Harold Thom – Nakusp, B.C. The winter of 1946-47 at Candle Lake, north of Prince Albert, Sask. was cold with lots of snow. There were a lot more wolves than usual too. We always hear [more…]
By Chuck Morden – McCreary, Man. My amazing mother was born in Germany and came to Canada at the age of 12. She learned to read and write English without going to school, married and raised a [more…]
By Jacob P. Siemens – Niverville, Man. I was teaching in a rural, one-room country school four miles west of Altona, Man. There was a new house for the teacher’s family only about a 100-feet [more…]
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…]
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