The Senior Paper

Christmas memories of a school long gone

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 [more...]

Brothers endured harsh mining conditions

By Edith (Dolly) (Milne) McEwen – Lloydminster, Alta. Three of my brothers worked underground at a mine at Pinto, just south of Bienfait, Sask., during the 1930s. Pinto, which no longer exists, had a small [more...]

Odorous surprise greeted them in the morning

By O. Lillie Randa – Kelowna, B.C. While going to a country school as a student, I knew that concerts were a [more...]

Father’s shell shock lasted long after war

By Irene Armitage – Hamiota, Man. My parents were born in Cornwall, England, and married in 1920. Dad was a tin miner [more...]

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…]

Mom couldn’t keep track of so many of us

By Grace (Huckabay) Haugen – Sundre, Alta. On the homestead at Meadow Lake, Sask., where my parents lived for 20 years, in the Dunfield school district, we had horses, cows, pigs, a dog, and cat. [more…]

“It was so quiet, it was downright spooky”

Widow sang duets with ‘smart little critter’

Memories of mom’s marvellous marshmallows

Christmas memories of a school long gone

Brothers endured harsh mining conditions

Odorous surprise greeted them in the morning

Father’s shell shock lasted long after war

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Girls harnessed cow as Halloween prank

Mom couldn’t keep track of so many of us