By Kathleen Smart – Wetaskiwin, Alta. As I tossed the second load of wet clothes into my electric clothes dryer on a cold winter morning, I remembered helping mother with her washing all those years ago. Washdays [continue…]
By Greta (Andersen) Huot – Spruce Grove, Alta. In May, 1951, our high school principle in Calmar, Alta., informed our senior class of eight students there was a shortage of teachers in the Clover Bar [continue…]
By Magdelina (Yungwirth) Bernier – St. Louis, Sask. I wish I could still climb trees like I used to as a child. My brother, Tony, and I had this one wonderful tree that grew along a [continue…]
By Sylvia Williams – Summerland, B.C. There were many homesteaders from Europe living in eastern Alberta. When they left their homes in the old country, they probably didn’t realize that living in a rural area in [continue…]
By Janet Reitmeier – Red Deer, Alta. Mom and dad moved the family from Apple Hill, Ont. to St. Brieux, Sask. in 1946. It was quite a change going from a dairy farm, where dad raised [continue…]
By Millie (Carlson) Bruce – Matheson Island, Man. I can’t help but think that people in the 1930s and ’40s must have been happy to find humour whenever and wherever they could in such hard times. [continue…]
By Agnes York – Saskatoon, Sask. Before the luxury of ducted furnaces, our central heating consisted of a fuel-burning heater in the middle of the room. It was usually fuelled with wood or coal. My parents used [continue…]
By June (Wacks) Patrick – Bowden, Alta. I was raised in Wilkie, Sask. It was a booming railroad town many years ago. My father was a conductor with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). We didn’t have a [continue…]
By Arloa Marsh – Lanigan, Sask. We were very lucky to have a library in our town growing up during the Depression in the 1930s. My brother and I loved to read. We’d go to the library [continue…]
By Dave Shore – Carrot River, Sask. It was while growing up on a farm southeast of Carrot River, Sask. in 1956-57 that I acquired my first one-speed bike. We had quite a few acres of recently [continue…]
By Bob Taylor – Winnipeg, Man. I recently came across an old postcard that had belonged to my late father-in-law, John Robinson, of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. The card was a souvenir from the 1912 [continue…]
By Elva Paton – Moose Jaw, Sask. The 1910s and early ‘20s had good crop conditions. Dad thought he was in good enough financial shape to build some new buildings. He’d always said that a [continue…]
By Wayne Stockton – Regina, Sask. Back in 1948, airplanes were still quite a novelty in small town Saskatchewan. That summer, a fellow piloting an Aeronca Champion from Saskatoon to Winnipeg decided to make a [continue…]
By Kelli Smith (Submitted by her parents Fred & Thelma Kirtzinger of Creston, B.C.) Two little babies, born only miles apart. Connected together right from the start. Two families were strangers, never having met. Still [continue…]
By Art Klassen – Portage la Prairie, Man. A photo of a Fordson tractor in The Senior Paper reminded me of our Fordson tractors. In the early 1920s, my parents were living with their parents [continue…]
By Ilien Coffey – Vernon, B.C. I hurried down from my second floor apartment to catch the bus to get to Sunday church about a mile away. I was wearing my brand new shoes with stiletto [continue…]
By Hilda Zaiser – Winnipeg, Man. During a fleeting moment of ambition, I decided to create some order in my messy storage room. As I was tidying the shelves, I came across my old Scrabble game. Although [continue…]
Threshing crew on Oct. 15, 1912 at the E.A. Coon farm, west of Carnduff in the southeast corner of Saskatchewan. The equipment was owned by Joe Buker. E.A. Coon is standing on the far right. [continue…]
Gordon McLeod of Saskatoon, Sask. a volunteer at the Western Development Museum admires this 1908 Overland touring car on display.
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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