Baker’s bread, store-bought food and manufactured clothing were all part of the “changes that have taken place in farm life in Ontario within…[the] recollection” of its older readers, reflects Toronto’s Weekly Sun, June 12, 1907. These changes are scarcely noticed in the hurry and bustle of every day affairs, and yet they are nothing […]
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Lonesome life of prairie missionary
A young Anglican missionary, 14 months out from England, talks to a Regina Standard reporter about the challenges of his parish, a prairie wilderness that extends from Calgary to the American border, September 11, 1891. “My parish is 100 miles long and forty miles wide, and at least once a year I am expected […]