Folklore Magazine - Summer 2006

Poetry:

Deserted Farmhouse - by Myra Stilborn
June - by Dorothy Peters

Features:

The Manitou Lake Band - by Irvin Opwam and Murray Ball
Rejecting Treaty four, several enterprising and adaptive Plains Cree and Metis families lived in the Manitou area.

Carlyle Lake - 1940 - by Margaret Lees
The author’s descriptive memories of working at the Carlyle Lake Resort Hotel.

Chicks, Fire and Curling Trophies - by Ewaldt Arndt
Two hundred "Paymaster 101" chicks arrived on the day of the curling bonspiel, the day after the brooder house caught fire.

School Picnic - by Victor Carl Friesen
The month of June in a 1940s era rural school brought Certificates of Promotion and the much anticipated annual picnic.

A Profile of Florence James - by Kay Parley
Kay Parley shares memories of Mrs. James, an exemplary drama teacher at Echo Valley in the early 1950s.

The Haugen Farm - by Gwen Follick
A brief profile of this pioneering family in the Hanley district.

The Electrical Engineer - by Peggy Hayes Looby
String continuously wound to and around household furniture and tied to several objects, a mother with frosted over glasses and an armful of frozen laundry... need we say more?

Suptertax and Employment Equity - by Bev Lundahl
A detailed account of the first instance of the now familiar Income Tax and the example of the author’s grandfather’s farm income in 1918.

Exhibition Week - by Robert Thompson
Memories of the features of the Royal American Shows in Saskatoon.

Remnants of the Buffalo - by Bev Lundahl
A homestead built on top of a buffalo trail and a nearby buffalo wallow are still evident on this farm today.

Transportation Family Style - by Donna Saunders
A child’s thrill of riding in an open car trunk for 40 miles to visit family in Estevan and the discomfort of the trip back home.

Company’s Coming - by Margaret Lees
An explanation of the unwritten rules of etiquette required for visiting farm neighbours.

Tailgate Suppers - by Wilma Hayes
Memories of taking food to the field during harvest time and eating it while sitting on the tailgate of the truck.

Slop Pails and Gopher Tails - by Jean Fahlman
The humble kitchen slop pail allowed recycling and easy garbage disposal compared to methods today.

Columns:

Looking Back - by Jack Drieger
How a Telegram Hoop was used with railway locomotives.

Working - by Robert Thompson
Stirling McNeil’s memories as a R.C.M.P. officer in the 1930s.

Depression Ingenuity - by Jack Driedger
How to repair a tire flat with nuts and bolts and a patch!

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