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 Carol (Swain) Crane – Medicine Hat, Alta. This morning as I was standing in front of my adjustable ironing board with my heat-regulated steam iron pressing the few articles of [continue…]
By Mathew Wozniak – Grande Prairie, Alta. From the first settlers until WWII, all land clearing was done with a grub hoe and axe. You would dig the dirt out [continue…]
By Harold Thom – Nakusp, B.C. I found two baby snowy owls beneath a big tree in our pasture. I was 13 and living on a farm near Paddockwood, Sask. [continue…]
By Peggy (Clemitson/Young) de Roaldes – Nanton, Alta. One day when I was five years old I wanted so much to have a horseback ride. I begged my mother for [continue…]
By Tina Schuitema – Edmonton, Alta. It was a hot Sunday afternoon in Regina, the wind blowing, and there were grasshoppers and potato bugs as usual. We were all lying [continue…]
By Connie Douglas – Chilliwack, B.C. Growing up on a farm near Consort in east-central Alberta, spring was always a long awaited event. I remember a special day when dad asked, [continue…]
Photo flashbacks of the Primrose Ranch Gang (top) circa 1943. They played CFQC radio Saskatoon at noon. The Wagon Masters (bottom), circa 1956, played Thursday evenings over CKY Winnipeg. The [continue…]
By Lorraine Arnott – Winnipeg, Man. On the corner of Portage and Aldine in Winnipeg, there’s a mural of a tramp on the side of a building that motorists see [continue…]
By M.S. McKinney – Kamloops, B.C. We had a very poor crop in 1937. It was so short and thin we couldn’t harvest with binders so they used what was called a [continue…]
By Trevor Jones – Dundas, Ont. Curling has always been a part of my life. I remember pulling dad’s ‘rocks’ on my sleigh to the curling rink each fall. They were [continue…]
By Lois McIntosh – Bon Accord, Alta. A story in The Senior Paper reminded me of our exciting school outing to Wainwright, Alta. to see the King and Queen. We [continue…]
By Elizabeth Harder – La Crete, Alta. In the early 1940s, my dad, Abe Wieler, bought a quarter section of land near Fort Vermilion, Alta. My Grandpa Braun and family moved there [continue…]
By Carolynn (Fenrich) Leeuw – Kamloops, B.C. When I came across a photo of me and my cousin, Gerald Feist, it brought back a flood of nostalgic memories. The photo was [continue…]
By Victoria (Turesky) D’Ambroise – Burnaby, B.C. When I was young, before leaving Saskatchewan, many Ukrainian farmers lived in the Sturgis area. We celebrated the English Christmas on Dec. 25 [continue…]
By Sylvia Wur – Saskatoon, Sask. One cold winter evening at the end of March we three children were sitting around the kitchen table. Having finished our homework, we were waiting [continue…]
By Mabel Cordell – Oyen, Alta. I went to school in Excel, Alta., a mile-and-a-half from where I grew up on a farm. There were 10 in my family – [continue…]
By Georgina Clark – Victoria, B.C. I’ve always been interested in the Bronfman family (of Seagrams fame) and I’ve read the book that was published about the family, but my [continue…]
By Noreen (Shaw) Kimery – Kipling, Sask. A mural, painted on the west wall of Balfour’s Drugstore in Kipling brought back many old memories of Saturday nights. Work on the farm [continue…]
By Paul Coon – Beaumont, Alta. A Massey ‘44’ tractor was purchased by Art Minor who farmed in the Florence district of southeast Saskatchewan from 1936 to 1953. In 1953, [continue…]
By Marina Antonenko – Saskatoon, Sask. It was a fine fall morning and it was decided to butcher and pluck some turkeys to take into Saskatoon to sell the next [continue…]
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