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 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 [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 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 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 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 Ruby Smith – Victoria, B.C. Covid 19 has definitely changed our world. It has isolated us, but at the same time made us closer. It has brought out the worst in some people, but fortunately, [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, had arrived at Fox Valley, [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 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 for our father to return [continue…]
By Don Erlandson – Saskatoon, Sask. I was born on a farm between Cadillac and Val Marie in southwest Saskatchewan. In 1935, my father Henry and one of my brothers, Ken, decided to build a dam [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 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 Terry Eddy – Foam Lake, Sask. Back in 1944, I was transferred as a teller with the Royal Bank to the town of Esterhazy in southeast Saskatchewan. I had the good fortune to join [continue…]
By Michael Bartolf – Oxbow, Sask. Living in the southeast part of Saskatchewan, we have lots of problems with mice. Cats help a lot in keeping them in control. I’ve had some dogs who didn’t [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 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…]
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