Dec 3, 2024 | Historical Christmas Stories, History
Image: 1934-35 Eaton’s Fall/Winter Catalogue I was a little girl when we lived on the homestead in the 1930s. Eight Mile was 32 miles north of Dawson Creek and 22 miles south of Fort St. John. Fifty-two miles between the two towns – it’s now 1994 and the miles...
Dec 14, 2022 | Historical Christmas Stories, History
Written by Lloyd Bryra in his book Cowboys, Moose Hunts, Blizzards, and Such: A Northern Canadian Cowboy Christmas and the school Christmas concert were always the highlights at that time of year. Preparations at school started in early December with plays,...
Dec 9, 2022 | Historical Christmas Stories, History
I was the second baby born in the old Pouce Coupe Hospital. That was on December 22nd, 1921. My parents, Joe and Jennie Goodvin, named me Frances Mary. We left for the trapline cabin just west of Mile 101 on the now Alaska Highway in 1924. In those days, most...
Dec 3, 2021 | Historical Christmas Stories
Our Christmas Concert [Charlie Lake School 1948] By Jacqueline Robinson Grade 6 We had a concert in the Junior room in the evening of December “17”. A very large crowd attended, so large that many could not get in. I was in a play called “A Good Impression....
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