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 Mary Guenther – Warman, Sask. Two of my friends, Justina and Annie, and I decided to go to Waskesiu, Sask., in Prince Albert National Park for a holiday in [continue…]
By Shirley Farthing – Saskatoon, Sask. In August we celebrated our 36th month – or to most people it is three years, but because of our advanced ages, we cannot [continue…]
By Ruth Dovell – Ta Ta Creek, B.C. During the second week of July, a stampede was held yearly in a valley called Murraydale in south-central Saskatchewan. We lived about 20 miles [continue…]
By Joyce (Startup) Whyte – Trail, B.C. I was one of eight children born to Armance and Bertram Startup in North Battleford, Sask. I was born in 1939 with brother Harry [continue…]
By Madeline Kallio – Kanata, Ont. A number of the companies that sold baking items offered free cookbooks. My mother’s kitchen always had a Red Rose cookbook. Knox offered a [continue…]
By Augusta ‘Gusty’ Chartrand – Regina, Sask. I taught at Bird’s Eye View School in 1953-54. A picture of the school in a recent issue of The Senior Paper brought back many [continue…]
By Bob McClelland – Welland, Ont. When I was a boy in Battleford, Sask., we didn’t concern ourselves too much with pollution. We had a bath every Saturday night and in the [continue…]
By Mathew Wozniak – Grande Prairie, Alta. My brother and I walked the four miles to school, and the first mile we had to break trail if it snowed. We walked [continue…]
By Hazel Miskew – Viking, Alta. When the government took over Golden Valley Dairy Farm to grow vegetables for a prison camp of 5,000 men, all the families had to [continue…]
By Carole Makaro – Lloydminster, Sask. It was early afternoon of June 17, 1947 and my aunt was in the restaurant at Hanley in central Saskatchewan getting her young boy an [continue…]
By Barb Cornelsen – St. Catharines, Ont. St. Catharines is situated on Lake Ontario and when I was a child, we’d go down to Port Dalhousie to the park for [continue…]
By Ilien Coffey – Vernon, B.C. In the early 1930s the Ladies Aid group in our district used many ingenious methods to help raise a few cents to help with [continue…]
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 [continue…]
By Anita Ring – Pilot Butte, Sask. The English language is estimated to contain over 600,000 words, with new words coined every year – making it a difficult language to [continue…]
By Anne Heil – Lemberg, Sask. One year my father, Peter Bartsch, hired a man for the summer months on the farm where I grew up, two miles north of [continue…]
By George Findlay – Calgary, Alta. Can’t you just see a Harvey Jackson, Lionel Conacher, or even a Turk Broda in this group? Actually, it’s a photo of the Lemberg Junior [continue…]
By Anany Holowaty – Saskatoon, Sask. My two brothers and I grew up on our parents’ farm 16 miles southeast of Foam Lake, Sask. in the Hazel Winthorpe District. Our [continue…]
By Esther North – Gibsons, B.C. From my upstairs bedroom window I saw Auntie Mae’s car turn onto the drive towards our farmhouse. It was the eve of my 10th birthday. [continue…]
By James Ruzicka Viking, Alta. I entered this world just before the Dirty ‘30s. Money was scarce so one had to keep track of every cent. I remember my mom saying “a [continue…]
By Darcy Schick – Wolseley, Sask. A number of years back, I raised various fowl including geese and ducks. Every day I would gather the eggs. If a goose or [continue…]
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