Dear editor: My husband and I were surprised and pleased to read an article in The Senior Paper written by Donald Sutherland from Winnipeg. In his story, he reminisces about the [continue…]
Kids from Assiniboia, Sask. minor hockey team were decked out in their ‘Stinger’ team jerseys for a parade to mark their community’s Centennial in 2012.
From Dorothy McLeod – Saskatoon, Sask. After my story “Harrowing trip sadly ended in tragedy” appeared in the in June 2012 issue of The Senior Paper, I had calls from [continue…]
By Cliff Swarbrick – Lacombe, Alta. I lost my dad in 1934 when I was only 15. We were a family of six boys and two girls. I was the oldest boy. Mother [continue…]
By Phil Leidl – Kelowna, B.C. When I was 17 my job was cutting hay with a team of horses. We didn’t really have a hay field but we had many [continue…]
By Mary (Brown) Filion – Swift Current, Sask. I was born in 1938 so I guess I missed the duststorms. We lived in the Ear View district (around Gull Lake, Sask.) [continue…]
Harvesttime in the early 1950s. (Top) Ernest Oddan is pictured on the binder and Leonard Oddan is on the homemade tractor. Raymond Oddan did most of the work building it, while [continue…]
By Virginia Neish – Abbotsford, B.C. In my pre-teens, my family lived in Surrey, B.C. within walking distance of the Fraser River and the Port Mann railway yards. Summer fun for [continue…]
By Dorothy (Corey) Nichol-Hack – Oliver, B.C. Growing up in the 1930s, my family and other families were known as the ‘Swede’ bunch. Every other Saturday or Sunday we’d have a [continue…]
By Alvin Bebault – Calgary, Alta. I grew up in Kelvington, Sask., and in 1954 when I was 13 years old, I was offered a very different and interesting job for [continue…]
By Ida Gillatt – North Battleford, Sask. One spring morning several years ago, I walked to the fruit trees in our yard. There I found a doe with a newborn fawn [continue…]
By Gusty Chartrand – Regina, Sask. I had an Eaton’s beauty doll. Mine was tall, about 12 or 14-inches. All her joints were movable: hips, knees, elbows, and hands. If you [continue…]
By Jacqueline Price – Black Diamond, Alta. When I saw the photo of the old building at Domremy, Sask. in the February 2012 issue, I immediately began to think of [continue…]
By Darlene Muir – Quill Lake, Sask. Most Saturdays in winter my dad, Willie Muir, drove his bombadier into Rose Valley in central Saskatchewan. About 12 neighbours came along to shop for [continue…]
By Dorothy (Miller) Hunsley – Mississauga, Ont. When our daughter was about three years old we drove west one summer. After two days driving to get out of Ontario and [continue…]
1925 Model-T Ford owned by Charles Turner of Killarney, Man., when he was 18 years old. It had 450/75-21 tires. His dad owned a 1918 Model-T. The famous automobile was [continue…]
By Vic Henry – Salmon Arm, B.C. I’m originally from Coronation, Alta. I was born in 1922 and when I was about eight years old, I remember we had a [continue…]
By Rita Bowey – Senlac, Sask. When I was growing up, my aunt and uncle would bring all the fixings for a big wiener roast at our place. All the [continue…]
By Ben Kirkpatrick – Saskatoon, Sask. The Seniors Tones is a choir of 30 senior citizens in Saskatoon. We sing in a different nursing home or seniors’ care home around [continue…]
By Audrey (Graham) Dorwart – Indian Head, Sask. My father, Joseph Benjamin Graham, bought the drugstore in Eyebrow, Sask. around 1920. A mural of ‘Old Main Street in Eyebrow” appeared [continue…]
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