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She practiced so she didn’t ‘throw like a girl’
By Bernice Millar – Turnor Lake, Sask. I was always a very active girl and I believed I could do anything my older sister, Beth did. She knew how to ride a bike and said [continue…]
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Earliest memories are not always happy ones
By Bill Beach – Victoria, B.C. Everyone has an earliest childhood memory. You may or may not think about yours much, however, mine was a terrible occurrence and is unforgettable. It happened at the age [continue…]
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Poor ol’ Bob tried to outrun the apparitions
By Clive England – Creston, B.C. In the winter of 1950-51, my brother, John, was seven years old and I was 12. We lived on a farm with our parents, Del and Hugo England, about [continue…]
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Snowdrifts and outdoor skating part of winter fun
By Mary Olson – Athabasca, Alta. I remember winters with deep snow when I was a small girl. It would pile up in drifts against the trees in a small pasture in our yard. The [continue…]
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‘Although I didn’t admit it then, its speed frightened me…’
By Helen Atkinson – Leduc, Alta. When I was about eight years old, dad found a worn sleigh four-inches tall and two-feet long. A rope tied just above the two runners at one end, it [continue…]
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Kids used extra socks to make skates fit
By George Findlay – Calgary, Alta. Saturday morning was practice time for the the Lemberg, Sask., Junior Hockey Team in 1938. Occasionally we’d go to the next town in a grain box on runners pulled [continue…]
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Kids were designated wartime smugglers
By Mickey (Larson) Lightfoot – Mississauga, Ont. My early years were spent in a tiny village called Northgate, south of Oxbow, Sask., on the border of North Dakota. A bigger town, also named Northgate, was [continue…]
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Funny laugh came from the henhouse
By Dorothy (Miller) Hunsley – Mississauga, Ont. We drove west one summer when our daughter was about three years old. After two days driving to get out of Ontario, the questions came fast and furious [continue…]
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Whitelock’s ‘lake’ was really just a slough
By Frank Vick – Prince Albert, Sask. I enjoy reading The Senior Paper and I look back with a great deal of nostalgia at many of the similarities that appear in our childhood life experiences. [continue…]