Each edition we put a question to a handful of local seniors, and this being December, decided to ask about their favourite Christmas memory.

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Lorraine Steele

鈥淚 was given a Shirley Temple doll by my oldest brother, who was 15 years older than me. He had come home from the (Second World) war and he bought me that doll for Christmas. I was probably five, so 1945.鈥�

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Lee Matthews

鈥淲e got up Christmas morning to go to Victoria on the ferry to surprise grandpa, who was ill. He would have been in his 70s.鈥� This was back in the 1970s.

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Heather Edwards

鈥淲e lived in the U.S. for 12 years and we always had Christmas dinner with a bunch of other Canadians. There was probably 20 of us at one time. And that鈥檚 what I remember, those great Christmas dinner in Tuscon. We just had so much fun.鈥�

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Elly Gilson

鈥淚t was Toronto, in the old part with the old houses. We had the French doors and my mother covered them with wrapping paper so we couldn鈥檛 see into the room. At that time, it was a boarding house that she ran so there was other children in the house, as well. It was for all of us. So after we came home from church, and she opened up the doors, and there was the tree, and it was all beautiful. We all had polished shoes that we put out, and they were filled with fruit and nuts.鈥�

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