By Agnes York – Saskatoon, Sask. While having a dishwasher is considered standard equipment in kitchens these days, the house I grew up didn’t even have a kitchen sink! We didn’t have indoor plumbing at all. [more…]
By Bob Taylor – Winnipeg, Man. I recently came across an old postcard that had belonged to my late father-in-law, John Robinson, of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. The card was a souvenir from the 1912 [more…]
By Elva Paton – Moose Jaw, Sask. The 1910s and early ‘20s had good crop conditions. Dad thought he was in good enough financial shape to build some new buildings. He’d always said that a [more…]
By Clive England – Creston, B.C. In the winter of 1950-51, my brother, John, was seven years old and I was 12. We lived on a farm with our parents, Del and Hugo England, about [more…]
By Hilda Szabo – Saskatoon, Sask. Years ago, I had a very intelligent, purebred Arabian horse named Chester. He thought he was invincible and also thought he was human. When the waterer stopped working, he [more…]
By Cecil Moffatt – Regina, Sask. After two years in the reserve army unit, I stepped forward and volunteered for active duty on July 10, 1941. A full medical and service registration came next. I was issued [more…]
By Berna (Swain) Michell – Melfort, Sask. I had my first teaching job in a rural school in the Tompkins, Sask., district. I lived in two small rooms added onto the side of the school [more…]
By Art Sander – Hilbre, Man. Have you ever had to do something that was nearly impossible? In my case, I am referring to the winter of 1955-56. It started snowing Oct. 8, 1955, and [more…]
By Helena (Hildebrandt) Weltz – Abbotsford, B.C. Consider the medicine cabinet. It reveals a wealth of information of its owner. Observe the contents of someone else’s set of shelves in their bathroom and you may [more…]
By Priscila (‘Scil) Morrical – Viking, Alta. To anyone else, it would likely have been of no consequence, but to me it was a treasure. I was five years old in 1950 when our house [more…]
By Kay Smart – Wetaskiwin, Alta. In early December 1966, I found a 1964 issue of Family Circle magazine that showed two pages of patterns for Christmas Tree ornaments. They were made from felt and [more…]
By Gladys Ridley – Edmonton, Alta. With Christmas just around the corner, I think back to my childhood and the Christmases spent growing up on a farm near Dunstable, Alta. My loving parents made Christmas [more…]
By Hilda Hass – Saskatoon, Sask. One storm I remember was in January 1946. It snowed and blew for three days. We were expecting our first baby and I had a doctor’s appointment in Saskatoon. We [more…]
By P. Gail Harrod – Ottawa, Ont. In the late 1940s, Wetmore School in Regina was a large, well-built school spread over an entire city block on Wallace Street. I was in Grade 4 the year [more…]
By O. Lillie Randa – Kelowna, B.C. While going to a country school as a student, I knew that concerts were a Christmas tradition. When it was my turn as a first-time teacher to orchestrate [more…]
By Anada Holtz – Leduc, Alta. I’d been visiting my friend in Saskatoon in the winter of 1958 and planned to spend Christmas at my sister’s farm near the hamlet of Laura, about 57 km (37 [more…]
By Gladys Simpson – Rapid City, Man. In the early 1950s, I went to work at the Hudson’s Bay store in Winnipeg, Man. That fall, one of my co-workers asked if I would like to sing [more…]
By Gladys McCarthy – Tisdale, Sask. I really enjoy The Senior Paper! Many of the stories remind me of life as it was years ago. One such story was from a reader who did not like [more…]
By Lillian Rempel – Summerland, B.C. As a lively teenager, I was raised on a picturesque farm in Northern Alberta. The joy of my life was the hours I spent riding bareback on my spirited [more…]
By Lynda Moses – Vermilion, Alta. For 25 years, our family has shared our Christmas dinner with our community of Vermilion, Alta. This was my late husband Ron Moses’ dream back in the 1990s. For [more…]
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