By Edven Torgerson – Turtleford, Sask. In the mid-1950s, when I was in my teens, we were living at the homestead of Nels and Maria Anderson. We used to live in the hills about 15 [continue…]
By June Chamberland – Prince George, B.C. I’ve been sitting outside in the warm sunshine, reminiscing about the “good old days” on the farm in Manitoba. I recall the tinkling of cow bells from out [continue…]
By Herb (Buster) Brown – Pinawa, Man. I had a short, but very enjoyable, farming career. In 1945, farm help was scarce. I was asked to drive a tractor on a farm west of Holland, [continue…]
By Lloyd Kitching – Carman, Man. My brother and I were just teenagers when our father died. Along with mother, we took over the operation of our small mixed farm. We had no tractor and [continue…]
By Pat Trask – Harris, Sask. The sun beat down on the parched fields of grain. Five days of this intense heat had shattered any hope for a heavy yield from these fields. Hour after hour, [continue…]
By Joanne Rawluk – Gypsumville, Man. My parents often spoke of the hardships they, and their parents, endured growing up. When I tell my own grandchildren of my early childhood “pioneering” on the farm, they look [continue…]
By Cy Lawrence – Melville, Sask. I was around 13 years old when World War II broke out. Being a farm boy, I was soon pressed into driving a stook team for our area. A [continue…]
By Mary Brown – Gull Lake, Sask. Springtime on the farm back in the ‘50s and ‘60s was a busy time for everyone. One day, my husband needed a hand to move some machinery from one [continue…]
By Peter Wall – Sicamous, B.C. We lived on a homestead near Macdowall, 30 km southwest of Prince Albert, Sask. My dad and his siblings were spread about the district and cooperated with one another over [continue…]
By Myrtle (Orsen) Matthews – Sedgewick, Alta. Growing up on our farm in Sunny Valley district in Saskatchewan, farm horses were a big part of our lives. Bing and Bang were our dad’s pride and [continue…]
By Scotty Wells – Scarborough, Ont. I was born on a rented farm six miles southeast of Rapid City, Man., in 1930. In April 1937, dad managed to buy a bank-foreclosed farm two miles southeast of [continue…]
By Helen Atkinson – Leduc, Alta. As little children, my sister and I sat low in the backseat of the car on our way to our grandma’s farm. Our heads were just high enough to [continue…]
By Russell Sparrow – Brandon, Man. Circumstances arose in the fall of 1937 and we had to move from Harding Man., to a farm at Roseneath approximately 40 miles away. Our family consisted of my [continue…]
By Vic Henry – Salmon Arm, B.C. I was about eight years old in 1930 and I remember we had a really good crop to bring in on our farm near Coronation, Alta. It was [continue…]
By Ethel (Huber) Orthner – Kelowna, B.C. My mother was born in 1902 and died in 1994. Although she’s been gone for some time now, remembering her, I think of her hands. All she ever wore [continue…]
By Edna Ferguson – Victoria, B.C. It was morning on my grandfather’s farm. There wasn’t the usual happy chatter at the breakfast table. The wind had been blowing for two days straight and although it had [continue…]
By Ed Kabanuk – Surrey, B.C. I’d been given the task of bringing the cows home for milking. This meant going about 3⁄4 mile to the pasture at the end of our land. It wasn’t an onerous task [continue…]
By Doris (Russell) Anderson – Grenfell, Sask. I’ll never forget my first and only Halloween prowl. I was a student at a country high school in central Saskatchewan and a classmate coerced four of us [continue…]
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 [continue…]
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, [continue…]
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