By Ione Skafte – Lethbridge, Alta. I lived on a farm in Wrentham, Alta., south of Taber, as a child. One of our small community’s social highlights was the annual Christmas concert and dance, complete [more…]
By Victor Daradick – High Level, Alta. Can you imagine the poor teachers who had to try teaching these children? We really weren’t that bad – just bad enough to drive several teachers to near [more…]
By John Glawson – Nanton, Alta. My grandfather never owned a car. He had an old buggy and his horses. If he had to go long distances, he would get the bus. He owned land off [more…]
By Willard Boschman – Saskatoon, Sask. On Dec. 24, 1946, my brother Arnold was 11 years old, Marvin was 10, I was eight, my sister Lola was four, and James was two. We lived at [more…]
By Angele Dalby – Penticton, B.C. When the Second World War began, the young men and women who were conscripted or volunteered went off to war. After a short training session they were shipped overseas [more…]
By John Fefchak – Virden, Man. At the 15 Wing Military Museum at CFB Moose Jaw, there’s an exhibit that symbolizes the sacrifices of our Air Force personnel. In the darkened room, there is a small [more…]
By Irene Armitage – Hamiota, Man. My parents were born in Cornwall, England, and married in 1920. Dad was a tin miner before the First World War, but mines were closing and there was no [more…]
By Patty Haun Roos – Victoria, B.C. My grandma always talked about her younger brother Rudy and how his plane was shot down by the Germans in WWII. She said that was the day her whole [more…]
By Joe Ralko – Columnist for The Senior Paper “We are the Dead.” I do not recall how old I was the first time I heard or read that sentence from the poem In Flanders [more…]
By Bernie Dawson – Saskatoon, Sask. When I was growing up, I never really became too involved or thought too much about Nov. 11. The veterans I knew wouldn’t talk about the war. While you knew [more…]
“Canadian Gothic” photo depiction of a Scottish immigrant couple in the mid-1920s on parched prairie land somewhere east of the towns of Woodhouse and Claresholm in Alberta. They are my Aunt Nan and Uncle Bob [more…]
By James McWilliams – Surrey, B.C. I grew up in Moose Jaw until I joined the Canadian Army the day after my 18th birthday. After years as a soldier, then a student at three universities, a [more…]
By Jeanette Armella – Prince George, B.C. In January 2017, after feeding fat and bread to my birds – ravens, magpies, and eagles – I looked up the road to the corner and saw a [more…]
By Tom Creighton – Winnipeg, Man. My grandkids call me Papa. I’m celebrating my 80th birthday this year by completing a “virtual walk across Canada” – from Vancouver to Halifax – with the goal of raising [more…]
By Ralph Barker – North Battleford, Sask. In 1945, my father, John (Jack) Barker of Sandwith, Sask., found and bought an W4 International gas tractor and an eight-foot one-way discer. He arranged to have them [more…]
By Gavin Wood – Regina, Sask. Sgt. Archibald Wilson was born on Feb. 12, 1892 in Wilten, Stirling, Scotland. He came to Canada in the early 1900s along with several siblings and eventually they took [more…]
By Ruby Smith – Victoria, B.C. I sit in my back yard and enjoy all the things around me. All the beautiful flowers, the fruit trees, the apples and blueberries. How Elmer loved those trees. It’s [more…]
By George Rose – Calgary, Alta. Being a train engineer was a cinch compared to being a fireman during the steam engine days. My train, on which I was the fireman, had arrived at Fox Valley, [more…]
By Doris (Russell) Anderson – Grenfell, Sask. I’ll never forget my first and only Halloween prowl. I was a student at a country high school in central Saskatchewan and a classmate coerced four of us [more…]
By Gerald Richards – Brandon, Man. After Christmas at Grandma’s, or the Christmas concert at the village hall, or one of the many house or card parties we attended – after we had said our [more…]
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