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She practiced so she didn’t ‘throw like a girl’
By Bernice Millar – Turnor Lake, Sask. I was always a very active girl and I believed I could do anything my older sister, Beth did. She knew how to ride a bike and said [continue…]
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First time on their own was summertime adventure
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 1956. It was a first for [continue…]
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‘I pawed great handfuls of packed gumbo mud’
By J. Alvin Speers – Calgary, Alta. During the summer of 1959, my dad accompanied me on a holiday trip return to the West. Single at the time, I was living at my parents’ home [continue…]
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Big horses seemed to enjoy the break from tedium
By Peter Wall – Sicamous, B.C. We lived on a homestead near Macdowall, 30 km southwest of Prince Albert, Sask. My dad and his siblings were spread about the district and cooperated with one another over [continue…]
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Teacher’s first flight was on the ‘meat plane’
By Anne Cott – Winnipeg, Man. I boarded the train in the small community of Eldersley, Sask. in late August, 1947 and headed for Dawson City, YT., to teach Grades 5 and 6. The train would [continue…]
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Boy helped drive cattle herd on small pony
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…]
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Mom offered ride on motorcycle
By Chuck Morden – McCreary, Man. My amazing mother was born in Germany and came to Canada at the age of 12. She learned to read and write English without going to school, married and raised a [continue…]
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Thrilling hang-gliding flight taken at 80
By George Hennessy – Falkland, B.C. I was born in January 1918 to pioneer parents on their homestead farm, 12 miles southwest of historic Battleford, Sask. Mother, as a young woman, walked (mostly behind a covered [continue…]