By Shirley Farthing – Saskatoon, Sask. As a child, I thought my mother was the most knowledgeable person in the whole wide world. She knew the answers to all my questions like, “why is the sky [continue…]
By Anne Sturby – Edmonton, Alta. Every time I watch the movie Babe, I am reminded of the predicament my father found himself in with a pig he purchased from a local farmer for the [continue…]
By Kathleen Smart – Wetaskiwin, Alta. As I tossed the second load of wet clothes into my electric clothes dryer on a cold winter morning, I remembered helping mother with her washing all those years ago. Washdays [continue…]
By Dorothy (Corey) Nichol-Hack – Oliver, B.C. I will remember my 13th birthday forever. It was the year mom bought me a pair of secondhand figure skates. The three neighbour boys, my brother, and I [continue…]
By Russell Sparrow – Brandon, Man. Circumstances arose in the fall of 1937 and we had to move from Harding Man., to a farm at Roseneath approximately 40 miles away. Our family consisted of my [continue…]
By Agnes York – Saskatoon, Sask. Can you remember when bread baking day took place on a regular basis? For us, it was usually twice weekly in order to have reasonably fresh bread. There were [continue…]
By Connie Douglas – Chilliwack, B.C. Growing up on a farm near Consort in east-central Alberta, spring was always a long awaited event. I remember a special day when dad asked, “would you like to ride [continue…]
By Edith (Dolly) (Milne) McEwen – Lloydminster, Alta. Three of my brothers worked underground at a mine at Pinto, just south of Bienfait, Sask., during the 1930s. Pinto, which no longer exists, had a small [continue…]
By Sylvia Williams – Summerland, B.C. There were many homesteaders from Europe living in eastern Alberta. When they left their homes in the old country, they probably didn’t realize that living in a rural area in [continue…]
By Millie (Carlson) Bruce – Matheson Island, Man. I can’t help but think that people in the 1930s and ’40s must have been happy to find humour whenever and wherever they could in such hard times. [continue…]
By Arloa Marsh – Lanigan, Sask. We were very lucky to have a library in our town growing up during the Depression in the 1930s. My brother and I loved to read. We’d go to the library [continue…]
By Agnes York – Saskatoon, Sask. While having a dishwasher is considered standard equipment in kitchens these days, the house I grew up didn’t even have a kitchen sink! We didn’t have indoor plumbing at all. [continue…]
By Julian Smith – London, Ont. The Kinsmen Club of Saskatoon started a new Peewee hockey league in 1937. Saskatoon had just built the new arena rink located downtown, near the technical collegiate. There were [continue…]
By Phil Leidl – Kelowna, B.C. I was seven years old, growing up in Leipzig, Sask., when the military put out a call for animal bones. It was WWII and the bones were being collected [continue…]
By Franklin Vick – Prince Albert, Sask. The Great Depression of the 1930s brought difficult economic times upon the families in our community. Money was an extremely scarce commodity. It was a time of hand-me-down clothes, [continue…]
By Russ Stewart – Victoria, B.C. During the lean years of the 1930s, a ray of light came into our lives in the form of a radio. Dad paid $2 for it at an auction sale. [continue…]
By Mathew Wozniak – Grande Prairie, Alta. When I was a Grade 3 student at Wanham, Alta., School in 1935, the Department of Highways erected a bridge about 70-feet long on the Burnt River. Our teacher, [continue…]
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