By Ralph Barker – North Battleford, Sask. In 1945, my father, John (Jack) Barker of Sandwith, Sask., found and bought an W4 International gas tractor and an eight-foot one-way discer. [continue…]
By Mathew Wozniak – Grande Prairie, Alta. From the first settlers until WWII, all land clearing was done with a grub hoe and axe. You would dig the dirt out [continue…]
By M.S. McKinney – Kamloops, B.C. We had a very poor crop in 1937. It was so short and thin we couldn’t harvest with binders so they used what was called a [continue…]
By Georgina Clark – Victoria, B.C. I’ve always been interested in the Bronfman family (of Seagrams fame) and I’ve read the book that was published about the family, but my [continue…]
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 [continue…]
By Lorne Forsythe – Medicine Hat, Alta. I was born in 1936 at Greenfield, New Brunswick. There were eight children in our family; four girls and four boys – Leona, Arthur, [continue…]
By Leila Rooke – Tisdale, Sask. The air was full of the promises of spring that April day in 1945. It had been a long snow-filled winter, but the weather had at [continue…]
A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagonload of corn. A farmer who lived nearby heard the noise and yelled over to the boy, “Hey William, forget your troubles. Come in [continue…]
By Gordon Phillips – Surrey, B.C. The village of Colfax, Sask., 25 miles northwest of Weyburn, had no source of water near the village. Drinking water was hauled in summer by wagon [continue…]
By Lloyd Johnson, Penticton, B.C. Now the other night I had a nightmare, I had the most horrible dream. See, I dreamt my range flooded over And my calves got all [continue…]
By Art Klassen – Portage la Prairie, Man. The picture of the Fordson tractor on Page 34 of the July 2012 issue reminded me of our Fordson tractors. In the [continue…]
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