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‘My best gift is having you home, mom’
By Anna Cooper – Macklin, Sask. My thoughts drifted back to Nov. 8, 1971 – a day of chaos. The secretary from St. Paul’s Hospital of Saskatoon phoned me at [continue…]
Christmas
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My beautiful Canadian Christmases
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 [continue…]
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Students would fall off stage
By Margaret (Stonehouse) Gentes – Wetaskiwin, Alta. I attended Graytown School and one of my fondest memories is of the Christmas concerts. We would start practising right after Halloween. Some [continue…]
Precious Memories
‘Did they catch the mouse?!’
By Marjory Antony – MacNutt, Sask. A school concert was always a big event in the 1940s. My mother sewed me a new dress for the concert. There was no snow on [continue…]
Precious Memories
Music man blew out his teeth!
By Deborah (Letkeman) Welsh – Blaine Lake, Sask. In my last year in country school we were about nine students, from Grades 1 to 8. We started preparing for the [continue…]
Precious Memories
Will Christmas cards be a thing of the past?
By Hilda Zaiser – Winnipeg, Man. Over the last few years I’ve noticed a definite decline in the sending of Christmas cards. Many people have stopped sending cards altogether. Some prefer [continue…]
Precious Memories
‘Pretty certain they don’t get better with age’
By Bill De La Mare – Roblin, Man. I had turned 18 by 1935 and my grandfather gave me a box of White Owl cigars at Christmas. Shortly afterwards, he [continue…]
Precious Memories
‘Dance or Santa Claus, which will it be?’
By Mary Olson – Athabasca, Alta. Christmas Eve was a night of great excitement. Hanging up my old lisle stockings with great anticipation as to what I would find in them [continue…]
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No hotel for storm-stranded honeymooners
By Rena Reid – Victoria, B.C. The picture of the Cadillac hotel on Page 36 of the June 2012 issue reminded me that there was a time around 1946 when [continue…]
The Lighter Side
He needs a dental do-over
A man goes to his dentist because something is wrong with his mouth. After a brief examination, the dentist exclaims, “Holy Smokes! That plate I installed in your mouth about [continue…]
Recipes
Christmas Chrunches
From Gail Prior – Penticton, B.C. 1 cup chocolate chips 1 cup butterscotch chips 1 cup dry chow mein noodles 1 cup unsalted peanuts Melt chocolate and butterscotch chips in [continue…]
How Poetic
Little One
By Lillian (Rafuse) (Reisinger) Crowe – Berwyn, Alta. He was only known as “little one” As he faithfully worked from sun to sun, Trudging thru’ every kind of day, Carrying [continue…]
How Poetic
Memories of Christmas Past!
By Mary Torgerson – Grande Prairie, Alta. My memories of years gone by Of Christmas Eve so glad Are all very special ones Not all were good, some very sad! [continue…]
How Poetic
Concert At Kelvin School
By Arthur Klassen, Newton Siding, Man. South of Portage some 20 miles, Was the school called Kelvin, A place of learning for kids, A place for us a career to [continue…]
How Poetic
Santa’s Secret
By O. Lillie Randa, Kelowna, B.C. Santa had been napping and he awoke with a start Children would be waiting and he must be on his way So he looked [continue…]
How Poetic
The Star That Led to Jesus
By Mary Fehr – Kelowna, B.C. Why did the Wise men lose the star, After they had followed it so far? Way out in the east they saw it clear, [continue…]
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Fall snowstorms had dust in them
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 [continue…]
The Lighter Side
De-lightful Christmas Chuckle
People are putting up so many lights on their houses at Christmas these days, you don’t know if they’re celebrating the birth of Jesus or General Electric.
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Christmas trip was a test for young horse
By Herman Cornelson – Swift Current, Sask. I wintered at the Matador Ranch in 1949-‘50. I planned to spend Christmas at my parents’ place at Beaver Flat, about seven miles north [continue…]
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Christmas memories of a school long gone
By P. Gail Harrod – Ottawa, Ont. In the late 1940s, Wetmore School in Regina was a large, well-built school and was spread over an entire city block on Wallace Street. [continue…]