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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 [more…]
OCT 2012
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Teacher’s first flight was on the ‘meat plane’
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 [more…]
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Boy helped drive cattle herd on small pony
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 [more…]
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Harrowing hailstorm leaves him with lasting memories
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 [more…]
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“Remembering her, I think of her hands”
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 [more…]
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Eggs-perimenting with fowl participants!
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 [more…]
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Girls harnessed cow as Halloween prank
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 [more…]
Letters from Readers
The Senior Paper brings people together!
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, [more…]
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Looking back in time!
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 [more…]
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Doll was not meant to be cuddled
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, [more…]
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Photo stirred many powerful memories
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 [more…]
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Funny laugh came from the henhouse
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 [more…]
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Antique Automobile
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 [more…]
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Revisiting old schoolhouse
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 [more…]
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Churches were important in their lives
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 [more…]
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He remembered these unexpected answers from kids
By Sig Ottenbreit – Kelowna, B.C. I started teaching in a one-room school in Saskatchewan on Aug. 12, 1946. Now, over 65 years I still go into a one-room classroom here in Kelowna, B.C. as [more…]