Wonderful memories shared by the people who lived them. These stories provide an unvarnished glimpse into our history and resonate with our own memories of days now gone but not forgotten!
By Gerry (Kewley) Procychyn – Leduc, Alta. About 14 years ago, we went with our daughter to buy another horse for our granddaughters. There was a whole field of horses and we [continue…]
By Leila Rooke – Tisdale, Sask. The air was full of the promises of spring that April day in 1945. It had been a long snow-filled winter, but the weather had at [continue…]
By Esther Wake – Penticton, B.C. A day in life in the 1930s at Brownlee in central Saskatchewan was hot and dry with duststorms and worms. We couldn’t afford coal [continue…]
By Marlene Wanner – Halbrite, Sask. On April Fool’s day 1960 in a small town in southern Saskatchewan, I was 14 years old and in Grade 7. The kids in [continue…]
By Dan Thedroff – Mission, B.C. In 1939, at age eight, I went from our farm at Crane Valley in southern Saskatchewan to visit my cousins on the farm of [continue…]
By Elsie Kipp – Wilkie, Sask. Horses have played such a great part in the lives of mankind during the ages. They are still used today, though in a much more limited [continue…]
By Dick Taylor – Melfort, Sask. Back when I was young, our main mode of transportation was on foot. We thought nothing of walking two or three miles to go swimming [continue…]
By J.R. Klassen – Regina, Sask. I remember old radios and lightning storms. In the late 1940s in my hometown of Aberdeen, Sask., about 25 miles northeast of Saskatoon, it was [continue…]
By Merle Roome – Qualicum Beach, B.C. I miss the wonderful warm wind in my face on a Saskatchewan summer’s day. I miss the return of the Oriole in mid-May, and [continue…]
By Magdalen Stang – Manning, Alta. We welcomed our 39th and 40th great-grandchild into our family in January, 2012. I was invited to number 39’s baby shower. I didn’t realize this [continue…]
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, [continue…]
By Gordon Legge – Yorkton, Sask. Chatsworth School was located 11 miles northeast of Saltcoats in eastern Saskatchewan. I and two other boys, Syril Blahay and Derik Bilton, had just left [continue…]
By Annie Zamonsky – North Battleford, Sask. In the late 1950s, people had to make their own heat for the house. This was planned a year ahead. Dad and my [continue…]
By Gordon Phillips – Surrey, B.C. The village of Colfax, Sask., 25 miles northwest of Weyburn, had no source of water near the village. Drinking water was hauled in summer by wagon [continue…]
By John Moyles – Regina, Sask. Cattle grazing land was hard to find in the early 1930s, so the Municipality allowed farmers to graze their stock on the road allowances [continue…]
By Gertrude Hiebert – Winnipeg, Man. When I started school at age seven in 1942 at Shoenthal, near Altona, Man., I couldn’t speak English, since my mom and dad didn’t know [continue…]
By Wm. Norman Morris – Westbank, B.C. Parents and grandparents need to ask children, “Just what has been happening during your day? Have you had any falls, or have you [continue…]
By Barb (Irwin) Prystupa – Langley, B.C. I was born in Radisson, Sask., and raised on a farm eight miles north of Borden. Radisson and Borden are situated along the [continue…]
By Frieda-Marie Elias – Swift Current, Sask. When I was about seven years old, I got yappier and yappier about my need to run away from home. Helping with jobs around [continue…]
By Hilda Hass – Saskatoon, Sask. In 1940 I was working at the CNR station in Saskatoon where the Midtown Plaza is now located. Many trains passed through the station in [continue…]
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