By Gerald Richards – Brandon, Man. After Christmas at Grandma’s, or the Christmas concert at the village hall, or one of the many house or card parties we attended – after we had said our [more…]
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 [more…]
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, [more…]
By Ann (Lysak) Stoute – Brampton, Ont. When I was about seven years old on our farm in Hazel Dell, Sask., Christmas Eve was the most magical night of the year. Outside the air was cold and [more…]
By Don Sizer – Landis, Sask. I’ve been involved in farming most of my life and often think of how little it took to brighten our often boring existence, especially in the cold winter days. [more…]
By Harold Volen – Burnaby, B.C. The spring hockey playoffs take me back to Saskatchewan, and Weyburn in particular. We had the Beavers senior hockey team that did a good job in the 1930s. Names I [more…]
By Carol Graychik – Mariposa, CA, USA Where do I go for Christmas? It’s far off to another land – another country – to the silence and beauty of the moonlight on new-fallen snow with [more…]
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. [more…]
By Grace (Huckabay) Haugen – Sundre, Alta. On the homestead at Meadow Lake, Sask., where my parents lived for 20 years, in the Dunfield school district, we had horses, cows, pigs, a dog, and cat. [more…]
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