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You can take the girl out of the country…
By Fay Morningstar – Stoney Creek, Ont. I sometimes find it difficult to know if I’m a country girl or a city girl. My birth certificate says I was born in Saskatchewan, so I must [more…]
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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 [more…]
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A quick turn on skates and I heard a crack
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 [more…]
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How many share a love for a special tree?
By Magdelina (Yungwirth) Bernier – St. Louis, Sask. I wish I could still climb trees like I used to as a child. My brother, Tony, and I had this one wonderful tree that grew along a [more…]
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Rock around the Homestead
By Tom Stewart – Ottawa, Ont. “You’re going where?!” My band mates were dumbfounded when I told them my plan. They couldn’t understand why, on a gruelling tour of western Canada, I would choose to [more…]
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Catalogue toy pages were a dream world for kids
By Menno Fast – Winkler, Man. My best Christmas was in 1942 when I was 10 years old. We had a wonderful program in the two-room Passchendale School I attended for eight years, near Hague, [more…]
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I couldn’t even remember being so dirty
By Bonnie Patterson – Owen Sound, Ont. My parents, Hilmer and Minnie Darroch, farmed two miles west of Mount Forest, Ontario. Early in April, on a Saturday morning, I would milk five cows then take my [more…]