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 Skip Fennessy – Fort Steele, B.C. Our story began in 1953 when two young ladies from White Fox, Sask., Ann Pawluck and Hazel Moonie, arrived in Cranbrook, B.C. They both found work at the St. Eugene [continue…]
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 homesteads [continue…]
By Gerald Richards – Brandon, Man. It happened often in my youth: it happened after a house party; after Christmas day at Grandma Duncan’s; after a Christmas concert at the village hall; after a card [continue…]
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 [continue…]
By Sylvia Williams – Summerland, B.C. It all began when I was in high school when I was about 16. We lived in an isolated area northeast of Edmonton, so I had to go to school [continue…]
By Gilbert De Mey – Holland, Man. Claudette Sandecki’s February 2016 column about the courage and devotion she gave her husband enabling him to stay home until his final day touched me, as my mother too, [continue…]
By Ben Kirkpatrick – Saskatoon, Sask. In my memories of the telephone ‘party line,’ there was always ‘central,’ the telephone office located in our hometown. In our case, it was Truax, Saskatchewan, some 60 miles southwest of [continue…]
By Syl Kulyk – Saskatoon, Sask. Growing up on a farm 10 miles west of Wakaw, Sask. in the district called Sokal had its advantages and disadvantages. We learned to adapt and make things work. [continue…]
By Clifford Scott – White Rock, B.C. In 1949-1950 I worked at the ABC Coal Mine in Drumheller, Alta. They had about 100 men working in the mine. They had a shaft with a cage in [continue…]
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 clothing that aren’t perma-press, I [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 from between the roots with [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. I had noticed the big [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 one. There was a very [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 on the living room floor, [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, “Would you like to ride [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 steel guitar player, Jimmie Pirie, [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 on their way west out [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 ‘header’. It cut the grain [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 in a heavy wooden box. [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 made the trip in an [continue…]
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