On June 6, 1944, a pivotal moment unfolded as thousands of Canadian soldiers stormed Juno Beach in Normandy, in the heavily German-fortified coast of France.

This is a series of news items from 1924, offering glimpses of life in this community a century ago. How similar are they to events that occur now – or how different?

The dedicated volunteers who compiled the first series of local history books in the 1970s and 1980s deserve our unconditional praise.

The Oyen Echo’s archives revealed an article celebrating the 75th birthday of the Sibbald Post Office. The post office’s 75th birthday was celebrated on Monday, March 9, 1987…

Compare these prices from a store in Esther, Alberta in 1957.

Inspirational stories, too often, are hidden, lost in the complexities of daily life, remaining untold. That was striking to me while wandering through news reports in 1934.

Two centuries ago, railways replaced waterways as an effective means of travel and transport. Then highways replaced the railway.

“New towns are springing into existence,” the Calgary Daily Herald reported, as it tracked developments on the Goose Lake Line…

Infrastructure like railways are systems shaping our world, as Deb Chachra describes in her new book “How Infrastructure Works.”

In its beginnings, the Canadian Northern Railway remained in the shadows of larger and more competitive builders like the Canadian Pacific Railway.

What circumstances led Anne Clemens and Burns Peacock (Echo, March 26) and many of this community’s ancestors, including mine, to live on the Goose Lake Line (GLL)?

Winter carnivals in communities like Oyen have a long tradition. Oyen’s first, a “Hard Times” skating carnival, occurred on January 14, 1915.

Compare these prices from 1957! The receipt was pictured in the Esther history book.

Most people know the basic story of building the Canadian Pacific Railway – to connect eastern Canada with the west coast, firmly establishing the external boundaries of Canada.

OYEN,  June 29, 1942 – At the beginning of the school term the students of the Oyen high school organized a students’ union and decided to publish a paper…

An article by J.E. Hess printed in the history book “Many Trails Crossed Here” records the story of his father homesteading in Oyen in July, 1910.

Forty years ago a group of approximately 25 women gathered in Esther Profoun’s basement in Oyen where she taught them how to make porcelain dolls.

A memory recorded in the Sibbald Community History Book was submitted by Bill O’Neill, who had been the manager of the Alberta Wheat Pool elevator in Sibbald in 1967.

If you’ve been around long enough to remember the decade of the 1970s, you’ll recall visions of towering piles of snow on the prairies.

The history book “Down Cereal’s Memory Trails” recorded a raging blizzard in Cereal and area on the night of March 5. The storm continued for two days…