• Hello World!

    Welcome to WordPress! This is your first post. Edit or delete it to take the first…

  • Live Theatre, Music and Dance

    Live Theatre Live theatre was very popular in Calgary before movies came along.  It continued in…

  • Hair, Make-up and Toiletries

    Little kids don’t like soap much but I do recall liking playing with soap bubbles.We had…

  • Restaurants

    Where my family went out to eat is not necessarily where others went. However a look…

  • Food ads

    For some reason food ad slogans stay in the memory for decades. Maybe it was because…

  • Snacks

    Healthy snacks we ate as little kids, under age 5, were biscuits, bits of cheese, slices…

  • Food we ate

    Our parents had been through a war. In 1942 along with all other Canadians they contributed…

  • Our schools

    School for our parents’ generation was considered by many a privilege. Often the farm kids were…

  • Our houses

    The birth rate of two generations back from us was huge. In Quebec some families had…

  • The setting

    A The Setting City –geography Native animals Bison, buffalo, elk, coyotes, wolves Hares, rabbitsRichardson ground squirrels…