Battlefords News-Optimist

Life As I Know It

Linda's Lines

Part I of II

Marie Ange passed away peacefully at the Villa Pascal in North Battleford, Sask. December 9, at the age of 103 years.

Battlefords Bright Spots

Historic North Battleford

Did the narrow brick building on North Battleford’s Railway Avenue seem like a castle to shoemaker Jake Marjan when he established his business there in 1932? At the insistence of his parents, who saw no future for him in Yugoslavia, Marjan immigrate

Imagine Saskatchewan in the early years of the 20th century — more pigs and cattle than people, more acres of land than people.

Felling trees, trimming logs and erecting a log building sounds more like a story from 1902, not 1972.

The fire hall in the Heritage Village at the North Battleford Western Development Museum is typical of small town fire halls that appeared in many Saskatchewan communities in the pioneer years.