How Poetic
Connected Together
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 [continue…]
mar 2013
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Family farmers fond of Ford
By Art Klassen – Portage la Prairie, Man. The picture of the Fordson tractor on Page 34 of the July 2012 issue reminded me of our Fordson tractors. In the [continue…]
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Airplane visit was quite exciting
By Wayne Stockton – Regina, Sask. Back in 1948, airplanes were still quite a novelty in small town Saskatchewan. That summer a fellow was piloting an Aeronca from Saskatoon to [continue…]
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Memories of being a farm kid
By Helena Chamberlain – Saskatoon, Sask. I grew up on a farm close to Hepburn, Sask., north of Saskatoon. Dad travelled with a team of horses. We got rides sometimes [continue…]
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Bridge group continues to meet
By Helen Kosmonek – Foam Lake, Sask. Our ladies bridge club as it was known was organized by Susie Stevenson in 1958 with 12 interested players. This made three tables. [continue…]
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Family benefitted from raising turkeys
By Clara Schur – Endeavour, Sask. In the spring, mother and her youngsters went combing the woods for turkey nests. The turkeys were free roaming and the nests were hard [continue…]
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How many share a love for a special tree?
By Magdelina (Yungwirth) Bernier – St. Louis, Sask. How many of you have had a favourite tree – one you climbed into and sat for hours as a child? I wish [continue…]
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A collection plate predicament!
By Ilien Coffey – Vernon, B.C. It was Sunday and I hurried down from my second floor apartment to catch the bus to get to my church about a mile away. [continue…]
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Goofing off with grenades
By H. Les Herrington – Claresholm, Alta. After basic training on the parade square in Camp Borden, Ont., in June-July 1951, our training platoon went on advance weapon training out on [continue…]
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Fascinated and amused by lovely decor
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 [continue…]
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Her first batch of bread went where?!
By Janet Reitmeier – Red Deer, Alta. Mom and dad Allen moved from Apple Hill, Ont. to St. Brieux, Sask. in 1946. It was quite a change going from a [continue…]
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Dusty old game finds new life
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 [continue…]
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Recalling special Saturday evenings in town
By Lorna (Rogers) Finstad – Armstrong, B.C. As a preteen in the 1930s, Saturday evening in town was special. Mother would hurry into Moore’s grocery store for a few food [continue…]
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Dad taught us all to dance
By Millie (Carlson) Bruce – Matheson Island, Man. I can’t help but think that people in the 1930s to the 1960s must have been mostly happy to find humour in such [continue…]
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Farm boys couldn’t stay home in winter
By Clifford Scott – White Rock, B.C. In the winter of 1942, I worked in the elevators at Fort William, Ont. I had a telescopic pole with a can on [continue…]
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‘Round and ’round, the clothes were swished
By Kathleen Smart – Wetaskiwin, Alta. As I tossed the second load of wet clothes into the electric dryer on a cold winter morning, I remembered helping mother with her washing. [continue…]
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‘Old Bill must have had some mule in him’
By Al Murphy – Pitt Meadows, B.C. After my dad’s death in June 1939, we five children (ages 6-12) were split up and moved to a mixed farming district in [continue…]
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Country school memories
By Phyllis (Miller) Townsend – Preeceville, Sask. Our teacher at Patridge Hill School, Mrs. Jolly, was a great lady who, with her three little girls, lived the week in the girl’s [continue…]
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Threshing Day – 1912
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 [continue…]
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Where early heaters were located
By Agnes York – Saskatoon, Sask. Remember when our central heating consisted of a heater in the middle of the room? This heater was usually fueled with wood and/or coal. My [continue…]