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All of these were an important winter
source of food and therefore the gathering process was a serious
chore. These berries, and the honey from the bees that father
looked after, satisfied the sweet tooth during the cold winters.
We also learned to identify and dig the seneca root which provides
the natural wintergreen flavor and which we dug with the
narrow spade-like diggers father made for us. These roots were
dried and sold to Chipperfield’s General Store in Hubbard for
our only summertime source of pocket money. In those years we
had not yet heard of the term “allowance”, and even if we had, our
parents had little enough for basics. So we, mother included, went
digging after chores were completed or else took time from
regular farm work.
Long after father sold these farms in 1952 and moved the family
back to Glenavon, Mom grieved for this wonderful piece of native
Saskatchewan parkland, untouched by the plough and filled with
the wonders of nature which she learned to love so much.

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