The Senior Paper - mar 2012

Tip learned at school got her out of garden weeding

By Helen Bechtel – Big River, Sask. When I was a child living on the farm, every summer my mom planted a big garden. From this garden came all the [continue…]

My Guedo was well known for his garden

Morris Moldowan – Prince Albert, Sask. My mother, Pauline (Lukaschuk) Moldowan, showed me articles in the October 2011 and January 2012 issues of The Senior Paper about Harry ‘Lukichuck’s’ east end [continue…]

First car was handed down

By Cyril Lawrance – Melville, Sask. My first car, a Model-T Ford, had been handed down in the family from my parents to my brother and finally to me. It [continue…]

Eggs sold for 10¢ / dozen; Calves for 50¢

By Clifford Scott – White Rock, B.C. I was born in the 1920s and growing up in the Dirty ‘30s, there was no rain for the crops and garden. My brother [continue…]

Where did the energy come from?

By Jean Bloomquist – St. Walburg, Sask. Many years ago, my brother and I packed small boxes of clothes, etc. and strapped them on the back of our bikes. Every [continue…]

Grandpa donated land for school

By Frances (Hoffman) Hutmacher – Winnipeg, Man. Peter and Anna (Lamberts) Hoffman came to Canada from the Midwestern States in 1903 with seven children. They took up a homestead about three [continue…]

Sixties were ‘perfect years’ for family

By Enid Pearce Mitchell – Regina, Sask. The 1960s were perfect years for our family of five – Allan, Wayne, Miles, Colin, and myself. The highlight of those years was our trip [continue…]

6-year-old drove tractor during harvest

By Clarence Wiebe – Rush Lake, Sask. I got my first taste of driving a tractor at age six. My dad had purchased a new Oliver 70 gas tractor in 1948 [continue…]

Salty water drove pigs ‘kind of insane’

By Glenn Jack – Regina, Sask. I grew up on a farm in the Wimborne area northeast of Calgary. Some of my memories were driving a tractor at 10 years old on [continue…]

Many life lessons learned in barn

By Wilf Cornelson – Maple Creek, Sask. My wife, Jean, and I went to Arena Community Pasture in April 1961. It is located eight miles east of the village of [continue…]

Springtime brought pain relief and bird nests!

By Hilda Born – Abbotsford, B.C. I grew up in Blumenort village, south of Swift Current, Sask., during the Depression. The long cold winters often gave me chilblains because I didn’t [continue…]

What happened when the load wobbled and twisted

By Edna Ferguson – Victoria, B.C. I was visiting my grandfather’s farm on threshing day. The crops had been cut and gathered into stooks that would be fed into the threshing [continue…]

The buildings looked familiar, but…

By Earl Boan – Moose Jaw, Sask. I can’t remember what year it was, but the economy had slowed down and I got laid off from Cushing Mills in Moose Jaw. [continue…]

First time on their own was an adventure

By Mary Guenther – Warman, Sask. Two of my friends, Justina and Annie, and I decided to go to Waskesiu, Sask., in Prince Albert National Park for a holiday in [continue…]

He howled at having to wear short pants

By Ruth Dovell – Ta Ta Creek, B.C. During the second week of July, a stampede was held yearly in a valley called Murraydale in south-central Saskatchewan. We lived about 20 miles [continue…]

Mom said no; guess what they did?!

By Joyce (Startup) Whyte – Trail, B.C. I was one of eight children born to Armance and Bertram Startup in North Battleford, Sask. I was born in 1939 with brother Harry [continue…]

Childhood dream was to teach Grade 1

By Augusta ‘Gusty’ Chartrand – Regina, Sask. I taught at Bird’s Eye View School in 1953-54. A picture of the school in a recent issue of The Senior Paper brought back many [continue…]

Around The Dance Floor

Elaine Baudais of Aldergrove, B.C. and Cliff Souther of Ogema, Sask., enjoy cutting a rug at the Ogema heritage village.

Drinking water came directly from river

By Bob McClelland – Welland, Ont. When I was a boy in Battleford, Sask., we didn’t concern ourselves too much with pollution. We had a bath every Saturday night and in the [continue…]

School’s route was trek for tykes

By Mathew Wozniak – Grande Prairie, Alta. My brother and I walked the four miles to school, and the first mile we had to break trail if it snowed. We walked [continue…]

Wonderful memories in every issue!

mar 2012