Paper Boy

Delivered the Regina Leader-Post rain, snow, sleet, or -30. Was very good money for a kid, Dad talked me into purchasing a Swiss Waltham self winding watch with my earnings instead of junk food. Plus I ate a lot of junk food.

Jello Aircraft Wheels

These are a plastic coin / wheel that came free in packages of jello in the early 1960's.
They are approx. 1 1/2" round with a full color picture in the middle of either cars or airplanes.
A full set is made up of 200 different wheels.

Still working on completing this set, I have over 140 aircraft.

Dad winter hunting with the tent

Dad loved hunting big game such as elk, moose and deer. We had a 8x8 canvas tent with an 8 X 6 extension on the back. Dad took the tent hunting one early winter and put a stove in the extension and cut a round hole for the chimney through the canvas roof. I can still hear Mom mad at him.

Post Office

My dad was the postmaster of Carragana from 1951 till 1967, when he transferred to Naicam Sask where he served till 1982. His grandson Devon is now a letter carrier in Edmonton. The old timers say the equipment has not changed very much.

I used to enjoy go into the post office in Carragana seeing the safe, mailboxes, and especially the scale from the letter scale to the parcel scale.

Canvas Bag for mail, it had a lock built in, we used to pick up and deliver the mail from the train

Safe for money, and stamps etc

Sask Wheat Pool Elevator

Tom Murray was the Pool Agent when we were living in Carragana. They moved to Yorkton in 1966 and we moved to Naicam in 1967. When my dad died and Tom's wife died Tom and Doreen got together and they married in 1995 and live in Yorkton.

The gas motor that ran the elevator sounded like this putt, putt, putt, it ran a big belt under the office that transferred the power through pulleys, gears and various implements of destruction.

Tom hired Bernie and I to shovel grain in an annex when he was loading box cars. It always was when the weather was hot and dry.

Carragana had one Wheat Pool Elevator, One Federal Elevator and one seed plant Newfeld Seed and Feed was run by my friends dad Mr Friske.