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 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…]
By Ruth Dovell – Ta Ta Creek, B.C. During the second week of July, a stampede was held yearly in a valley called Murraydale in south-central Saskatchewan. We lived about 20 miles [continue…]
By Joyce (Startup) Whyte – Trail, B.C. I was one of eight children born to Armance and Bertram Startup in North Battleford, Sask. I was born in 1939 with brother Harry [continue…]
By Madeline Kallio – Kanata, Ont. A number of the companies that sold baking items offered free cookbooks. My mother’s kitchen always had a Red Rose cookbook. Knox offered a [continue…]
By Augusta ‘Gusty’ Chartrand – Regina, Sask. I taught at Bird’s Eye View School in 1953-54. A picture of the school in a recent issue of The Senior Paper brought back many [continue…]
By Bob McClelland – Welland, Ont. When I was a boy in Battleford, Sask., we didn’t concern ourselves too much with pollution. We had a bath every Saturday night and in the [continue…]
By Mathew Wozniak – Grande Prairie, Alta. My brother and I walked the four miles to school, and the first mile we had to break trail if it snowed. We walked [continue…]
By Hazel Miskew – Viking, Alta. When the government took over Golden Valley Dairy Farm to grow vegetables for a prison camp of 5,000 men, all the families had to [continue…]
By Carole Makaro – Lloydminster, Sask. It was early afternoon of June 17, 1947 and my aunt was in the restaurant at Hanley in central Saskatchewan getting her young boy an [continue…]
By Barb Cornelsen – St. Catharines, Ont. St. Catharines is situated on Lake Ontario and when I was a child, we’d go down to Port Dalhousie to the park for [continue…]
By Ilien Coffey – Vernon, B.C. In the early 1930s the Ladies Aid group in our district used many ingenious methods to help raise a few cents to help with [continue…]
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