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 Bertha Johnson – Red Deer, Alta. One of our District Court judges (known now as Court of Queen’s Bench), told me I had a distinction within the court system [continue…]
By Hannah Messel – Newbrook, Alta. It was back around 1940, when I was about seven years old, my two sisters and I were visiting my Aunt Mary – our daddy’s [continue…]
By Winston Smith – Apple Hill, Ont. It was just after the first covered rink was built in Wakaw in central Saskatchewan that I played on the (almost) championship bantam [continue…]
By Helen Atkinson – Leduc, Alta. When I was about eight years old, dad found in the old garage at a house we had just moved into, a worn sleigh [continue…]
By Stella (Keyowski) Halldorson – Yorkton, Sask. In our younger days we had many chores. One day my brother, Peter, and I went to feed 60 pigs in a large fenced-in [continue…]
By Harold Volen – Burnaby, B.C. The spring hockey playoffs take me back to Saskatchewan, and Weyburn in particular. We had the Beavers senior hockey team that did a good [continue…]
By Lillian (Bohnen) Rose – Calgary, Alta. My father, a carpenter by trade, with the help of my older sister, built our second house in B.C., on the only flat piece [continue…]
By Yyonne (Craeyveldt) DeBruyne – Radville, Sask. My sister, Marie Craeyveldt, was nine years old and I was eight when we lived in Ste. Amelie, Man. We both wanted to go [continue…]
By Helen Bechtel – Big River, Sask. When I was a child living on the farm, every summer my mom planted a big garden. From this garden came all the [continue…]
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…]
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