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 1956. It was a first for [continue…]
By Dorothy (Corey) Nichol-Hack – Oliver, B.C. I will remember my 13th birthday forever. It was the year mom bought me a pair of secondhand figure skates. The three neighbour boys, my brother, and I [continue…]
By Kay Parley – Regina, Sask. We moved to Regina in 1938 and I entered Grade 10. As a newcomer, my mother advised me to look for someone who seemed to be alone and talk to [continue…]
By Olga (Lukawesky) Hrycun – Penticton, B.C. My first posting as a teacher in Alberta was in 1942 at Hollow Lake School. The school was one mile west of the post office and 10 miles north [continue…]
By Marie Siemens – Nanaimo, B.C. “Behind every successful seamstress lies a mountain of scraps,” so read a declaration sitting on the checkout counter of a fabric store I visited several years ago. Immediately I wished [continue…]
By Sue Frissell – Wainwright, Alta. Good advice came from my grandpa back in the early 1940s, while we were living in the country near Windsor, Ontario. One summer afternoon had been very sultry, the [continue…]
By Agnes York – Saskatoon, Sask. Can you remember when bread baking day took place on a regular basis? For us, it was usually twice weekly in order to have reasonably fresh bread. There were [continue…]
By Virginia (Ginny) Neish – Abbotsford, B.C. Bob and I moved to an eight-acre hobby farm in Raymore, Sask., back in 1980. We spent the first few months living in a small trailer while we completely [continue…]
By Edith (Dolly) (Milne) McEwen – Lloydminster, Alta. Three of my brothers worked underground at a mine at Pinto, just south of Bienfait, Sask., during the 1930s. Pinto, which no longer exists, had a small [continue…]
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 garden in Prince Albert. The correct [continue…]
By Hilda Born – Abbotsford, B.C. I grew up in the village of Blumenort, south of Swift Current, Sask., during the Depression. The long cold winters often gave me chilblains because I didn’t have good [continue…]
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 my job in Moose Jaw. It seemed nobody in the [continue…]
By Augusta ‘Gusty’ Chartrand – Regina, Sask. I taught at Bird’s Eye View School in 1953-54. A picture of the school in the July 2011 issue of The Senior Paper brought back many memories from before, [continue…]
Train trips from the prairies used to start from a railway station like this one at Radville in south-central Saskatchewan. Though now silent, you can almost hear the ‘chugga-chugga’ of the train pulling away from [continue…]
Youngsters Luke Stilborn of Lemberg, Sask.; Mary Cleggett of Balcarres, Sask.; Paige Ruecker of Abernethy, Sask., and Aimee Derkach, also of Balcarres, with their prize-winning cats at the Abernethy town fair.
Sophie Karpish of Prince Albert, Sask., holds loaf of bread straight from a clay oven at her city’s annual exhibition. Is there anything that beats the smell of baking bread?
Peter Susa of Regina examines old movie projectors at Ogema, Saskatchewan’s heritage village. Do you remember crowding into movie theatres on long summer nights to watch the latest ‘flick’?
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…]
Young Liam Noble of Saskatoon, Sask., learns Morse code from retired telegrapher Henry Fulmes, also of Saskatoon, at the Western Development Museum’s annual Pion-Era event.
Audrey Madsen and Olga Chuey of Prince Albert, Sask. enjoyed seeing the horses in show ring on a beautiful sunny day. Summer fairs and local exhibitions are always a fun time for many seniors.
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