By George Hennessy – Coldstream, B.C. After a lifetime of reading, The Senior Paper has become an important part of my life. The heartwarming stories of early the times in Canada, depicting the spirit of [continue…]
By Wilf Miller – Keremeos, B.C. My father came west in 1903. Childhood memories of dad telling stories of the Old West were as if we were there too. When he came searching for his [continue…]
By Steve Sipos – Thunder Bay, Ont. Amid copious tears from relatives and friends, my mother, older brother, Joe, and I, boarded the coach at the railroad station in Velky Berezny, Czechoslovakia in November 1937. [continue…]
By Leonard Wenninger – Drayton Valley, Alta. Our teacher informed us one day that we’d be doing a paper maché project the following week. We were going to be making animals and he wanted us [continue…]
By Russ Stewart – Victoria, B.C. At 15, I was the “boy of all work” in the pharmacy in my hometown in 1946. I had many an adventure and many a learning experience there, though [continue…]
By Hilda Born – Abbotsford, B.C. Sibling relationships are some of the strongest and most enduring. My sisters share my memories, only in a different way. We had the same parents and lived in the [continue…]
By Mary (Potorieko) Yawney – Raymond, Alta. My father was born in Ukraine in 1888. He was called to the army when he was 22, and served to the end of the First World War. [continue…]
By Harold Thom – Nakusp, B.C. The winter of 1946-47 at Candle Lake, north of Prince Albert, Sask. was cold with lots of snow. There were a lot more wolves than usual too. We always hear [continue…]
By Gene Chura – Moose Jaw, Sask. The longest, most frightening, and also the most lonesome four days and four nights of my life, happened in August 1938. To this day, I vividly remember every [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 Margaret Albers – Weyburn, Sask. As I get older, my thoughts go back to the first years ofd married life in the Garville School District near Bengough, Sask. We spent the first year living in [continue…]
Sarah Ball (left) of Saskatoon provides ‘backup’ for Alexis Kolodziejski, also of Saskatoon, who writes a note during the annual Vesna Ukrainian event in 2011.
Tom Rice, Marion Mainville, and June Ruff, all of Lloydminster, enjoy chatting by this antique tractor during the annual exhibition in their city.
By Stan Peterson – Cabri, Sask. We used to have fun dances at Venlo School near to the town of Abbey, Sask. I remember these times and the good crowds we used to get. The admission [continue…]
Hand-quilting one afternoon at the Western Development Museum in North Battleford were (left) Joyce Ruda of North Battleford and Betty Keller of neighbouring town, Battleford.
By Hazel (Wellbrock) Lamb – Swift Current, Sask. As I sit and wonder what I should write about Memories come flooding back Some good ones, there’s no doubt From the time you were a little boy [continue…]
By Kay Bowen – Elk Point, Alta. In this world there are people On whom you can depend. But there is one and only one Who is your forever friend. One you can tell your [continue…]
By Ken Hoff – Moosehorn, Man. It seemed that life would never end, ‘Til I reached three score years and ten. I couldn’t make it pass me by, So I looked “old age” in the [continue…]
By Lawrence Zelionka – Redvers, Sask. Japan has very nearly been destroyed, By an event they could not avoid. A disastrous nine point two earthquake, That caused the entire country to shake. A tsunami followed [continue…]
By Rose Purcha – Ituna, Sask. Spring is when beauty appears Crocus buds on the trees make you want to cheer Pussy willows are pretty without a label Bringing God’s beauty on your table. Summer [continue…]
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