THE QUARANTINIAN

From the time of my birth until I started school in grade one I was called “Junior” named after my dad, Alexander - as in Alex junior.

On any prairie farm the nerve centre is the farmhouse. On our Vauxhall farm this was certainly the case. It was a source of warmth and...

The Vauxhall farm was born in the early 1920s when my folks moved from the unirrigated Saskatchewan homestead to irrigated land seven...

The details of early days at Loverna, Saskatchewan are a bit sketchy for me. However there are several detailed descriptions by Alberta...

My mother Ola was born in Omemee, Ontario near Peterborough to George Mulligan and Effie Maude (nee Turner). George was said to have been...

My dad was a chain smoker. He rolled his own. One large green can of Ogden’s fine cut per week. He rarely had a cigarette out of his...

Early in the war the government in consultation with our Allies established the Commonwealth Air Training Program designed to train...

On September first Hitlers Germany invaded Poland, and Britain immediately gave Hitler an ultimatum which expired the same day and war...

We younger kids were very little affected and unaware of the events in Germany leading up to the outbreak of WWII . Maybe my parents knew bu

Another outhouse calamity happened when a small “wiener” pig who had the run of the yard decided to explore inside the outhouse.

Grade two close your scribblers and open your story books. Grade three close your books, open your scribblers and pay attention to the blac

The lived in a sod hut the first winter until the house was finished.

We kids all had farm duties. My first job at age four was gathering eggs. It took a fair amount of courage to retrieve a warm egg out from u

“I kept me ‘ead down, me mouth shut and I didn’t volunteer for nuthin”