By Jacob P. Siemens – Niverville, Man. I was teaching in a rural, one-room country school four miles west of Altona, Man. There was a new house for the teacher’s family only about a 100-feet [continue…]
By Art Sander – Hilbre, Man. Have you ever had to do something that was nearly impossible? In my case, I am referring to the winter of 1955-56. It started snowing Oct. 8, 1955, and [continue…]
By Anada Holtz – Leduc, Alta. I’d been visiting my friend in Saskatoon in the winter of 1958 and planned to spend Christmas at my sister’s farm near the hamlet of Laura, about 57 km (37 [continue…]
By Ione Skafte – Lethbridge, Alta. I lived on a farm in Wrentham, Alta., south of Taber, as a child. One of our small community’s social highlights was the annual Christmas concert and dance, complete [continue…]
By Marina Antonenko – Saskatoon, Sask. It was a fine fall morning. We’d decided to process some turkeys and take them from the farm into Saskatoon to sell the next day. We had raised over [continue…]
By Michael Bartolf – Oxbow, Sask. Recent weather events in the news has my memory drift back to a big storm we had in March 1947 at Oxbow, Sask. It started on a beautiful, warm [continue…]
By George Rose – Calgary, Alta. Six months after joining the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) at Medicine Hat as a wiper cleaning train engines, I was a student fireman travelling from there to Swift Current, [continue…]
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