Running a barbershop was more than a business back in the era when Lloyd’s Barber Shop was located on Main Street in Kindersley.

A long line of 1-ton trucks stretches toward the elevator in Eastend, Saskatchewan, in this 1953 scene, when farmers hauled about 500 bushels each to market the old-fashioned way.

Viterra’s high-throughput inland grain elevator southwest of Kindersley marks a decade since loading its first port-bound shipment, a 104-car train of durum wheat, on May 4, 2016.

The 1950s marked a decade of electrification in rural Saskatchewan. Seventy-five years ago, farms were being powered with electricity for the first time…

Twenty years ago, the Plenty and District Community Players brought the stage to life with their production of “Rest Assured.”

You might recognize some of these Kerrobert Composite School students from 2006 who participated in a 30 Hour Famine.

If you dig through the archives, you will discover the Kindersley and District Arts Council has been providing quality entertainment for decades.

A 1914 issue of The Kindersley Expositor, found in the archives at the Kindersley Museum, displayed an ad for Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food, described as “the greatest of spring restoratives,”…

Members of a Coleville senior accordion quartet perform at the Kindersley Music Festival in 1981, where they earned medallions.

Aerial view of Fiske in the 1950s, showing the village along the Canadian National Railway line west of Rosetown. The rail line reached the district in 1909…

A snapshot of these two Kerrobert gals was published in a 2007 spring edition of The Crossroads. Grade 12 student Lacy Schrieber took great care in shaving teacher Allison Sherwin’s hair…

A 1954 Town of Kindersley physician card issued to a local resident, marking the early days of publicly funded health care in Saskatchewan.

A jar of molasses was a common ingredient in the household of every pioneer, primarily because it was an affordable sweetener compared to refined sugar.

An aerial view of the village of Madison in 1959 shows homes clustered along the Canadian National Railway line between Eston and Eatonia in west-central Saskatchewan.

Ron Lamont shared this photo of himself standing on the platform at the Kindersley train station sometime in the 1950s.

EATONIA — Two residents of Eatonia Oasis Living recently shared stories of growing up on the prairies, offering a glimpse into rural life from nearly a century ago.

On March 4, 1912, one of Saskatoon’s railway bridges collapsed while a train was crossing it. The Canadian Northern Railway bridge gave way beneath the CNR sleeper…

Up until the late 1960s, wooden hand-cranked telephones were a common fixture in many homes. A photo of one of the antique devices recently posted on the Historic Saskatchewan…

Women in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba were the first in Canada to gain the right to vote, marking a major step forward for women’s rights in the country.

KINDERSLEY — A little-known feature of Kindersley’s former hospital was a tunnel connecting the facility to the nurses’ residence next door.