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Local History
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.
This postcard view of Kerrobert, Sask., was mailed to a friend in Imperial on Oct. 4, 1912. In a handwritten note, the sender says he is working as a carpenter and earning 55 cents an hour.
This photo captures a motorist in 1926 cruising down what eventually became the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan. Now that’s a road trip!
A photo of Bob Pickering’s famous high backswing shared on Historic Saskatchewan’s Facebook page sparked some memories from prairie dwellers.
Did you know kids across Canada protested inflated chocolate bar prices in 1947? When the cost of five-cent chocolate bars rose to the lofty heights of eight cents…
Ron Lamont is a former long-time Kindersley resident who worked on the railroad. He shared a photo of Passenger Train No. 10 sitting in the Kindersley CNR yard back in the early 1950s.
Ron Lamont is a familiar face to Kindersley residents. He and his wife Stella lived in Kindersley for over 70 years and were very active in the community.
Ron Lamont was a long-time Kindersley resident who worked on the railroad and shared this memory of two steam engines arriving back at the shop track in Kindersley after snowplow runs.
Do you recognize these Boy Scouts from the Prairie Gold District who were awarded the Chief Scout Award nearly thirty years ago?
Cypress Hills Provincial Park has been an all-time favourite destination for many people from Saskatchewan and Alberta for many, many years.
It was such a pleasure to visit with three nonagenarians (aged 90–98) at Eatonia Oasis Living. Gail Guidinger (90), Frances Swan (97), and Lloyd Adams (98) happily shared…