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She practiced so she didn’t ‘throw like a girl’
By Bernice Millar – Turnor Lake, Sask. I was always a very active girl and I believed I could do anything my older sister, Beth did. She knew how to ride a bike and said [continue…]
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Blistering shot found its mark!
By Winston Smith – Apple Hill, Ont. It was just after the first covered rink was built in Wakaw, Sask., that I played on the (almost) championship bantam hockey team. Though I can’t remember the [continue…]
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Fever dashed his hopes of making the team
By Julian Smith – London, Ont. The Kinsmen Club of Saskatoon started a new Peewee hockey league in 1937. Saskatoon had just built the new arena rink located downtown, near the technical collegiate. There were [continue…]
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Played hockey with ‘Punch Line’ Lach
By Harold Volen – Burnaby, B.C. The spring hockey playoffs take me back to Saskatchewan, and Weyburn in particular. We had the Beavers senior hockey team that did a good job in the 1930s. Names I [continue…]
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Kids used extra socks to make skates fit
By George Findlay – Calgary, Alta. Saturday morning was practice time for the the Lemberg, Sask., Junior Hockey Team in 1938. Occasionally we’d go to the next town in a grain box on runners pulled [continue…]