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 Bill Eddy – Okanagan Falls, B.C. I live in a townhouse complex and a neighbour maintains a vegetable garden at the end of our property. He is generous with his [continue…]
Morris Moldowan – Prince Albert, Sask. My mother, Pauline (Lukaschuk) Moldowan, showed me articles in the October 2011 and January 2012 issues of The Senior Paper about Harry ‘Lukichuck’s’ east end [continue…]
By Cyril Lawrance – Melville, Sask. My first car, a Model-T Ford, had been handed down in the family from my parents to my brother and finally to me. It [continue…]
By Clifford Scott – White Rock, B.C. I was born in the 1920s and growing up in the Dirty ‘30s, there was no rain for the crops and garden. My brother [continue…]
By Jean Bloomquist – St. Walburg, Sask. Many years ago, my brother and I packed small boxes of clothes, etc. and strapped them on the back of our bikes. Every [continue…]
By Frances (Hoffman) Hutmacher – Winnipeg, Man. Peter and Anna (Lamberts) Hoffman came to Canada from the Midwestern States in 1903 with seven children. They took up a homestead about three [continue…]
By Anna Cooper – Macklin, Sask. My thoughts drifted back to Nov. 8, 1971 – a day of chaos. The secretary from St. Paul’s Hospital of Saskatoon phoned me at [continue…]
By Edwin Bronsch – High River, Alta. As a child growing up in Radisson, Sask., I never had time to be bored, as I had a great relationship with my dog, [continue…]
By Margaret Lesperance – Portage la Prairie, Man. I’ve never been as cold as I was during my first year of school. This was the latter half of the Dirty ‘30s, [continue…]
By Scotty Wells – Scarborough, Ont. I was born in 1930 on a rented farm in Manitoba, six miles southeast of Rapid City. In April 1937, dad had managed to buy [continue…]
By Enid Pearce Mitchell – Regina, Sask. The 1960s were perfect years for our family of five – Allan, Wayne, Miles, Colin, and myself. The highlight of those years was our trip [continue…]
By Clarence Wiebe – Rush Lake, Sask. I got my first taste of driving a tractor at age six. My dad had purchased a new Oliver 70 gas tractor in 1948 [continue…]
By Glenn Jack – Regina, Sask. I grew up on a farm in the Wimborne area northeast of Calgary. Some of my memories were driving a tractor at 10 years old on [continue…]
By Wilf Cornelson – Maple Creek, Sask. My wife, Jean, and I went to Arena Community Pasture in April 1961. It is located eight miles east of the village of [continue…]
By Hilda Born – Abbotsford, B.C. I grew up in Blumenort village, south of Swift Current, Sask., during the Depression. The long cold winters often gave me chilblains because I didn’t [continue…]
By Edna Ferguson – Victoria, B.C. I was visiting my grandfather’s farm on threshing day. The crops had been cut and gathered into stooks that would be fed into the threshing [continue…]
By Earl Boan – Moose Jaw, Sask. I can’t remember what year it was, but the economy had slowed down and I got laid off from Cushing Mills in Moose Jaw. [continue…]
By Margaret (Kopeck) Gentle – Saskatoon, Sask. I started dressing and playing with our orange Tabby cat after I had lost my rag doll. I had left my doll in the [continue…]
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…]
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