By Julie (Friesen) Johnston – Shaunavon, Sask. My childhood school was located in the middle of the village of Schoenfeld, Sask., was called Maharg School. Attending that school has left me with a lot of [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 ELSIE (Horgas) CARRICK – Moose Jaw, Sask. Although more than six decades have passed and many miles separate us, Maxwelton School draws me like a magnet whenever I’m in the area. A feeling of [continue…]
By Chuck Morden – McCreary, Man. My amazing mother was born in Germany and came to Canada at the age of 12. She learned to read and write English without going to school, married and raised a [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 Anna Cooper – Macklin, Sask. When my mother became very ill during her sixth pregnancy and was hospitalized in the late 1930s, never to be released, hardship fell upon our family. Dad was devastated and [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…]
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 Wes Lonoway – McTaggart, Sask. My nostalgic trip began after a summer family barbecue. You know what it’s like after a meal with family. Some of the children are running off their newfound energy. [continue…]
Clint Miller and his dad, William, led other members of the Miller family in a horse-drawn float in the Chaplin, Sask., parade to mark the community’s centennial in 2012.
An old snow plane is displayed at the museum in Mossbank, Sask., south of Moose Jaw. This relic once played an important role in prairie winter transportation for folks.
Magnificent draught horses pulling a people-mover wagon during a hometown parade in Melfort, Saskatchewan.
Barry Churchman of Rosetown, Sask., takes pride in driving his 1929 Chev. It cost $695 new and was the cheapest model that year.
Louis Szalai (left) of Stockholm, Sask., and John Wilson of Dubuc, Sask., admired this antique farm truck on display at the annual Farm Progress Show in Regina.
By Esther Rude – Swift Current, Sask. In Saskatchewan there is a village And Waldeck is its name. The seniors organized a club Fun and action was its aim. The musicians gathered on Monday p.m. [continue…]
By Dick Taylor – Melfort, Sask. A young girl was wandering In a valley one day In search of wild flowers For a special bouquet. Her mother was ailing And fading away No flower is [continue…]
By J. Alvin Speers – Calgary, Alta. There is a cook in our town At a restaurant nearby Who thinks that serving broccoli Is the only way to fly. Day in, day out, month after month, [continue…]
By Jacob M. Fehr – Swift Current, Sask. Clear, cool, sunny February morning, trodding wide, bare saucer ditches, pickin bottles, makin dough. Like pickin frozen cow chips, kick em gently. There’s one, just a sparkle [continue…]
By Else Lunden – Sorrento, B.C. We’re out of meat so my man is away Hunting for moose with wagon or sleigh He spends the night in the cabin so warm Out of the cold [continue…]
By Donald Tataryn – Scarborough, Ont. From a tiny country village to a city like you from a life that’s been lonely to the excitement of you then along came those rumours they were all [continue…]
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