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Not every home had a ‘front room’

By Claudette Sandecki – Terrace, B.C. In her memoir, Sister to Courage, Wanda Robson writes of their 1926 Halifax home having a “front room” with a parlour beyond. The term, front room, stirred memories of [continue…]

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Hand-dug well water wasn’t wasted

By Joanne Rawluk – Gypsumville, Man. My parents often spoke of the hardships they, and their parents, endured growing up. When I tell my own grandchildren of my early childhood “pioneering” on the farm, they look [continue…]

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Her mother helped launch her ‘career’

By Carol (Swain) Crane – Medicine Hat, Alta. This morning 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 thought [continue…]