Researcher looking for Saskatchewan families who lost an armed forces member during the Second World War who would like to be included in a family notes section of a book about the province’s 3,600 war deaths. E-mail mickpar1@sk.sympatico.ca, fax 306-728-2318 or mail: Beth Parsons at Box 2322, Melville, Sask. S0A 2P0.
Photos sought: Author of Still Standing, the Grain Elevators of Southern Alberta, is doing a sequel book and is seeking photographs of grain elevators from central and northern Alberta, since many have already been demolished. E-mail photos@sophihicken.com, phone 416-508-7376 or mail: Sophi Hicken at Box 38044, Mississauga, Ont., L5E 3G3.
Read Also
Stacking Canada up on gene editing livestock
Canada may want to gauge how Argentina and other countries have approached gene editing in livestock and what that has meant for local innovation.
Wanted: Missing blocks numbered 10, 23 and 24 to Farm Life Quilt published in the Free Press Prairie Farmer in the late 1930s. Willing to pay for photocopies and postage. – Shirley Kozij, Box 35, Hendon, Sask. S0E 0X0.
Saskatoon Riding Club Trophy Show 50th anniversary, June 7-8. Show and reunion at Ebon Stables, Saskatoon. All former members of the Saskatoon Riding Club, Pony Club or any past show exhibitors are encouraged to attend. For information and registration, contact: Marian Harvey, Site 307, Box 21, R.R. 3, Saskatoon, Sask. S7K 3J6, 306-668-4719.
Saskatchewan Co-operative Youth Program 75th anniversary. All former staff are invited to attend reunion, Aug. 23-24. Hitchcock’s Hideaway (formerly the Rayner Centre), Lake Diefenbaker, Sask. Contact: Youth Program, 306-244-3702 or www.ccasask.ca.
Makwa and district homecoming, Those Were The Days, July 30-Aug. 1. Districts include: Morin Creek, Silver Grand, Sandy Ridge, Blueberry, Rabbit Ridge, Deer School and Ferris. Looking for people who went to Makwa School in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Write: Box 180, Makwa, Sask. S0M 1N0, www.makwahomecoming.com or e-mail: makwahomecomin@makwahomecoming.com.
