
First time on their own was summertime 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 1956. It was a first for [more…]
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 [more…]
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 [more…]
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 [more…]
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 [more…]
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 [more…]
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 [more…]
By Anne (Kurkowsky) Cohoon – Wilberforce, Ont. My brother, Michael Kurkowsky, was a soldier. He was born on a farm north of the village of Hyas in east-central Saskatchewan, and attended Lake Helen School. During the [more…]
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 [more…]
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 [more…]
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 [more…]
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 [more…]
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 [more…]
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, [more…]
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 [more…]
By Gerald Erickson – Sundre, Alta. My dad and mother homesteaded north of Big River, Sask., in the spring of 1932. There were 11 children then, which increased to 15 by 1940. There were eight [more…]
By Bonnie Patterson – Owen Sound, Ont. My parents, Hilmer and Minnie Darroch, farmed two miles west of Mount Forest, Ontario. Early in April, on a Saturday morning, I would milk five cows then take my [more…]
By Loretta Oddan – Medicine Hat, Alta. My dad had an auction sale in 1947 with his friend Jack Heilman. They needed money to go to Vancouver to work, and for money to keep things going [more…]
By Lorne Buchanan – Winnipeg, Man. Growing up on a farm at Francis, 42 miles southeast of Regina, Sask., I remember many of the living conditions during the 1930s. I recall how hard my parents and [more…]
By Joyce Hayko – Lethbridge, Alta. When I was growing up in the 1940s, our home owned a sewing repair kit called the Button Box. Almost any tiny item found its way into the button [more…]
By George Hennessy – Falkland, B.C. I was born in January 1918 to pioneer parents on their homestead farm, 12 miles southwest of historic Battleford, Sask. Mother, as a young woman, walked (mostly behind a covered [more…]
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