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Shortly after a photo of this vintage telephone was posted, comments poured in describing how it worked. It was reported to be a 300 series manual wall phone…
This $10 bill from the Bank of Saskatchewan is extremely rare. In 1913 the Bank of Saskatchewan was a proposed commercial bank based out of Moose Jaw that failed before it ever began…
Back in the day not many people used valuable film to photograph an outhouse. However, this lopsided structure was captured on film in the 1940s.
After seeing last week's photo of the roundhouse from the steam era in Kindersley, Laura Wyman submitted a photo of this drill press, which is in storage at the Wyman farm.
Former Kindersley resident Ron Lamont recalled the town's roundhouse was a very busy place when he came to Kindersley in 1949. The roundhouse had at least nine stalls.
Newspaper archives from 1982 revealed a local resident's blast from the past. As a hot air balloon pilot, Kindersley resident Laura Wyman was familiar with the loud hot blast of flame…
Two generations grew up watching Mr. Dressup on television. Sixty-five years ago, on May 13, 1961, Mr. Dressup (aka Ernie Coombs) married Mrs. Dressup (aka Lynn Hodgkiss).
This week is designated as Nurse's Week from May 11 to 17, celebrated annually during the week of Florence Nightingale's birthday on the 12th.
Joan Janzen spotted these vintage Dick and Jane readers at a museum, sparking memories of learning to read alongside Spot, Puff, Sally, Mother and Father.
Do you remember dunking Dad's Cookies in a glass of milk? Those cookies were first produced in a factory in Regina, Saskatchewan. Production began in 1938 on Dewdney Avenue…
FROM HORSE TO HORSEPOWER. Dick and Thelma Hayes seeding their land in 1928, captured in the History of Royal Canadian, Newcombe, Eatonia, Laporte history book.
Young Ken Smith poses with his feathered friend on the family farm sometime in the early 1920s. Born in the old Kindersley Hospital on Railway Avenue West in 1912…
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…
