Lost chick found in most unbelievable place
By Mary Brown – Gull Lake, Sask. Springtime on the farm back in the ‘50s and ‘60s was a busy time for everyone. One day, my husband needed a hand to move some machinery from one [continue…]
By Mary Brown – Gull Lake, Sask. Springtime on the farm back in the ‘50s and ‘60s was a busy time for everyone. One day, my husband needed a hand to move some machinery from one [continue…]
By Anne Cott – Winnipeg, Man. I boarded the train in the small community of Eldersley, Sask. in late August, 1947 and headed for Dawson City, YT., to teach Grades 5 and 6. The train would [continue…]
By Russell Sparrow – Brandon, Man. Circumstances arose in the fall of 1937 and we had to move from Harding Man., to a farm at Roseneath approximately 40 miles away. Our family consisted of my [continue…]
By Vic Henry – Salmon Arm, B.C. I was about eight years old in 1930 and I remember we had a really good crop to bring in on our farm near Coronation, Alta. It was [continue…]
By Ethel (Huber) Orthner – Kelowna, B.C. My mother was born in 1902 and died in 1994. Although she’s been gone for some time now, remembering her, I think of her hands. All she ever wore [continue…]
By Franklin Vick – Prince Albert, Sask. I was born in 1929, the sixth son of Henry Vick III and Lydian Groff on the family homestead near St. Walburg, Sask. The attending midwife wanted to [continue…]
By Doris (Russell) Anderson – Grenfell, Sask. I’ll never forget my first and only Halloween prowl. I was a student at a country high school in central Saskatchewan and a classmate coerced four of us [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 Brandon, Man., Westbank and Kelowna, [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 brothers, Lawrence, Edward, Ernest, and [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 placed her legs just so, [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 my childhood years spent in [continue…]
By Dorothy (Miller) Hunsley – Mississauga, Ont. We drove west one summer when our daughter was about three years old. After two days driving to get out of Ontario, the questions came fast and furious [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 introduced in October 1908 and [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 the city almost once a [continue…]
The old Preston schoolhouse is located a few miles from the town of Ridgedale in northeast Saskatchewan. Pictured are Betty’s sister, Bernice Peacock and brother, George Darbyshire, who attended the old school. – Picture from Betty [continue…]
By Lynn Redeburg – Weyburn, Sask. This is about the importance of churches in our lives. My two sisters and I all met our husbands through the church. My oldest sister met her husband because [continue…]
Enjoying his work, Richard Boxall of Fort Qu’Appelle rolls up dough in preparation for making delicious cinnamon buns at the Abernethy, Sask., Agriculture Day in 2012.
Brothers (left) Bernhart, Gary, and Barry Adrian had great time in Chaplin, Sask., for the town’s centennial celebrations in July 2012. Bernhart and Barry are from Moose Jaw, and Gary is from Chaplin.
Tinkering under the hood of his 1951 Chevy half-ton was Paul Wendt of Moose Jaw, Sask., during a Show & Shine event at the centennial celebration in Chaplin in late July, 2012.
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