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There was no booze and no money in the Peace Country in 1920, but the residents of Grande Prairie did not let that dampen their Christmas spirits.

Mail early, the first parcels one receives have a special flavour, particularly if one has to pass over a 'Don't Open Until Christmas' warning in order to get into them.

It didn't matter what you cooked for Christmas dinner the important thing was to do it the same way each year according to the leading homemaking pundit of 1929.

Homesteaders in the north knew how to live in a cold climate, but an extended period of extreme cold weather was too much for J.B.Yule who predicted warmer weather.

In 1928 W.D. Albright advised local homesteaders to inventory their assets and liabilities every year. That's what he did and one year it changed the course of his life.

Halloween pranks became serious enough to warrant an editorial in Grande Prairie calling for an end to the spirit of lawlessness amongst young boys on Halloween night.

The best way to fatten a free range turkey is to restrict its range, but if you restrict its range it quits eating, in the 1920s pioneers had a solution to this dilemma.

A year before the stock market crash of 1929 a student at Montrose School in Grande Prairie prophetically wondered if the commercialism of Christmas had gone too far.

The fad for extremely small Christmas greeting cards got too extreme for the post office when fashionable cards started getting smaller than the postage stamps.

In 1927 J.B. Yule explained the rules of prediction as applied to weather forecasting after he promised a break from the extreme cold weather in the Peace River country.

During the 1920s Santa was an eligible bachelor who went from Christmas concert to Christmas concert kissing each young lady of the district as he presented her gift.

In the frontier town of Grande Prairie, merchants brought in a few luxuries and a taste of city life for their homesteading customers during the Christmas season, 1923.

Light from Yule Brand logs meant to guide people home during the winter solstice was eventually transformed into the Christmas tree lights in homesteader cabins.

Half of the homesteaders complained and the other half laughed about a historic coca cola ad that suggested deliveries of the beverage came to their region by dog sled.

Future beauty queens and politicians performed to great acclaim, Santa Clause arrived at mid-night, and then the dancing began. Oh yeah, and the food was great too!

By the late 1920s homesteaders in the Peace River Country were hosting Halloween parties with games, costumes, treats and dancing for the youngsters.

During the 1920s pioneers to the Peace River Country of Western Canada learned some practical techniques for storing home grown vegetables like potatoes and cabbages.

A press box reduced the risk of injury from hockey skates and excited fans, but danger from getting caught in the middle of hockey fights actually increased.

New Year's Day, 1925 was an important day for youth on the frontier. A new curfew law meant that students had to be home, hopefully doing homework after 9:30 at night.

They made their own costumes. There was confetti and streamers, the orchestra was in fine form so they danced until the electricity went off and everyone had to go home.

The editor, Dorothy Bates thought they should use their energy studying for June exams but the hockey girls of Montrose loved to score goals, even accidental goals.

Dorothy Bates, Vera Guthrie and Dorothy Medlock campaigned for a homework club on the frontier in 1929, but most of the students just wanted to have fun at school.