By Margaret (Kopeck) Gentle – Saskatoon, Sask. I started dressing and playing with our orange Tabby cat after I lost my rag doll. I’d left it in the farm yard and a horse stepped on it [more…]
By Lilian (Oswell) Beynon – Lloydminster, Alta. Finding an old winter photo reminded me of the winters of my childhood in the ‘30s on the farm at Tangleflags, Sask. We lived in a log house that [more…]
By Kay Smart – Wetaskiwin, Alta. In early December 1966, I found a 1964 issue of Family Circle magazine that showed two pages of patterns for Christmas Tree ornaments. They were made from felt and [more…]
By Gladys Ridley – Edmonton, Alta. With Christmas just around the corner, I think back to my childhood and the Christmases spent growing up on a farm near Dunstable, Alta. My loving parents made Christmas [more…]
By Hilda Hass – Saskatoon, Sask. One storm I remember was in January 1946. It snowed and blew for three days. We were expecting our first baby and I had a doctor’s appointment in Saskatoon. We [more…]
By P. Gail Harrod – Ottawa, Ont. In the late 1940s, Wetmore School in Regina was a large, well-built school spread over an entire city block on Wallace Street. I was in Grade 4 the year [more…]
By O. Lillie Randa – Kelowna, B.C. While going to a country school as a student, I knew that concerts were a Christmas tradition. When it was my turn as a first-time teacher to orchestrate [more…]
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 [more…]
By Gladys Simpson – Rapid City, Man. In the early 1950s, I went to work at the Hudson’s Bay store in Winnipeg, Man. That fall, one of my co-workers asked if I would like to sing [more…]
By Gladys McCarthy – Tisdale, Sask. I really enjoy The Senior Paper! Many of the stories remind me of life as it was years ago. One such story was from a reader who did not like [more…]
By Lillian Rempel – Summerland, B.C. As a lively teenager, I was raised on a picturesque farm in Northern Alberta. The joy of my life was the hours I spent riding bareback on my spirited [more…]
By Lynda Moses – Vermilion, Alta. For 25 years, our family has shared our Christmas dinner with our community of Vermilion, Alta. This was my late husband Ron Moses’ dream back in the 1990s. For [more…]
By Mary (Thompson) Savage – Terrace, B.C. Our family moved from Northern Ontario to Orillia during the summertime. My older brother, Bill, was in Grade 4 at Westward School. My younger two brothers, David and George, [more…]
By Merlin Roome – Qualicum Beach, B.C. I was four years old on the first Christmas Eve I remember. That was 80 years ago. I can still remember laying in bed and wondering if Santa [more…]
By Russ Stewart – Victoria, B.C. William Shakespeare wrote about the seven stages (acts) of man. As far as my wife and I are concerned, the stages of our lives can be measured in Christmas [more…]
By George Hill – Weyburn, Sask. When I look back to my childhood, I cannot believe that I could hardly wait for the arrival of winter! The end of the fall season – with all [more…]
By Ione Skafte – Lethbridge, Alta. We took possession of our own home in February. How excited we were! I spent the first month going back and forth from our last rented home with a [more…]
By Phila Munn – Oxbow, Sask. We were a very poor and unhappy family by the Christmas of 1960. Mum and us kids were on our own. I was the eldest at 12, then my [more…]
By Naden Hewko – Macklin, Sask. My parents immigrated to Canada from Ukraine in the late 1920s, bringing their ethnic customs with them. We especially loved the Holy Supper shared the evening before Christmas Day. [more…]
By Ben McIntyre – Nanaimo, B.C. At the age of 20 and with only one year of teaching experience, I was sent to the new town of Uranium City, Sask., in September, 1952 to open [more…]
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