By Millie Duncan – Killam, Alta. It was 1951 and at nine years old, I’d just learned in school how to write a friendly letter. I’d determined I would write to my cousin in Canora, Sask. [continue…]
By Sylvia Williams – Summerland, B.C. The Second World War began in 1939 and that same year, I left home in northeastern Alberta to attend Alberta College in Edmonton. I was just 14 years old. My [continue…]
By Gordon Phillips – Surrey, B.C. After graduating from Vancouver Normal School, I wrote about 25 applications for a teaching position and received no answers. At that time in 1941, the military was looking for [continue…]
By Gerald Richards – Brandon, Man. When I started school at Halbrite in August, 1949, my teacher was Mrs. Rubin. She taught Grades 1 to 3. In her classroom, there was order and regularity. We’d [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 ELSIE (Horgas) CARRICK – Moose Jaw, Sask. Although more than six decades have passed and many miles separate us, Maxwelton School draws me like a magnet whenever I’m in the area. A feeling of [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 Clive England – Creston, B.C. In the winter of 1950-51, my brother, John, was seven years old and I was 12. We lived on a farm with our parents, Del and Hugo England, about [continue…]
By P. Gail Harrod – Ottawa, Ont. In the late 1940s, Wetmore School in Regina was a large, well-built school spread over an entire city block on Wallace Street. I was in Grade 4 the year [continue…]
By Liz Wilson – Calgary, Alta. “Would you like to walk with us?” These were the first words I heard on the University of Alberta campus as I started first-year Education in the fall of 1952. [continue…]
Dear fellow readers: Because of The Senior Paper, miracles do happen! My Christmas story was printed in the December 2011 issue and each of my five children received a copy. Sadly, my eldest and youngest [continue…]
By Don Sizer – Landis, Sask. I’ve been involved in farming most of my life and often think of how little it took to brighten our often boring existence, especially in the cold winter days. [continue…]
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