-Apr 9, 20202 minLast Vignettes on the Farm YearsFrom 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.
-Apr 8, 20203 minThe Farm HouseOn 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...
-Apr 7, 20204 minThe Vauxhall Farm: 1920-1944The Vauxhall farm was born in the early 1920s when my folks moved from the unirrigated Saskatchewan homestead to irrigated land seven...
-Apr 5, 20202 minHomesteading: The Loverna YearsThe details of early days at Loverna, Saskatchewan are a bit sketchy for me. However there are several detailed descriptions by Alberta...
-Apr 5, 20202 minOla Muriel Brumwell (neé Mulligan): 1894-1974My mother Ola was born in Omemee, Ontario near Peterborough to George Mulligan and Effie Maude (nee Turner). George was said to have been...
-Apr 3, 20202 minCancerMy 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...
-Apr 3, 20202 minTragedy 1942Early in the war the government in consultation with our Allies established the Commonwealth Air Training Program designed to train...
-Apr 2, 20204 minFarm War: 1939-1943On September first Hitlers Germany invaded Poland, and Britain immediately gave Hitler an ultimatum which expired the same day and war...
-Apr 1, 20203 minThe Countdown: 1936-1939We 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
-Mar 30, 20202 minThe Pit ToiletAnother outhouse calamity happened when a small “wiener” pig who had the run of the yard decided to explore inside the outhouse.
-Mar 30, 20204 minOne Room School HouseGrade two close your scribblers and open your story books. Grade three close your books, open your scribblers and pay attention to the blac
-Mar 30, 20202 minFishing & HuntingThe lived in a sod hut the first winter until the house was finished.
-Mar 30, 20203 minThe FarmWe 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
-Mar 30, 20202 min“I kept me ‘ead down, me mouth shut and I didn’t volunteer for nuthin”“I kept me ‘ead down, me mouth shut and I didn’t volunteer for nuthin”