We made our own Christmas cards, and then sold them for our Band trips. We had a contest one year, maybe in about 1968, to see who could design our Christmas cards. We were told when designing the cards that it had to be fairly simple so our designs can be used when we make the Christmas cards using paint and screening. They explained it all for us and of course, we were all confused.
Until we actually got to do the screening ourselves then we could see what they were saying when they explained to us how the ‘screening’ works.
They picked maybe a half dozen designs from all the students from all the classes at Lejac. They even picked one of mine which was about three Wise Men in a Canoe following the North star.
Once they made the selection they then made a number of screens at the Scout Hall and all us students and supervisors (and our Band Master, Brother McCormick) began making the cards. It involved a lot of paint which we poured onto the screens and then hung these cards onto lines of string across the hall for them to dry. We had to run some of these cards through the screens more than once depending on how many colors in the picture. All the boys and girls chipped in and helped.
Once the Christmas cards were all done we travelled to the local towns and sold them door-to-door. They sent me and another intermediate boy with a senior and we sold cards at Vanderhoof one weekend. I remember knocking on a fellow’s door that Saturday afternoon. And he was watching television. We each took turns asking people if they would like to buy the Xmas cards. And we had to be ‘polite and courteous’.
The fellow had a color television. And none of us had ever seen a color television before. And we took turns poking our head in his door and watching his color TV while the third boy talked to him.
In 1969 we went to Prince George and sold cards at a table we set up at the Hudson Bay store downtown. Me, Victor West and two other boys took turns sitting at the table selling cards. It was a lot of fun but a lot of work. photo courtesy of 'flickr'.
Until we actually got to do the screening ourselves then we could see what they were saying when they explained to us how the ‘screening’ works.
They picked maybe a half dozen designs from all the students from all the classes at Lejac. They even picked one of mine which was about three Wise Men in a Canoe following the North star.
Once they made the selection they then made a number of screens at the Scout Hall and all us students and supervisors (and our Band Master, Brother McCormick) began making the cards. It involved a lot of paint which we poured onto the screens and then hung these cards onto lines of string across the hall for them to dry. We had to run some of these cards through the screens more than once depending on how many colors in the picture. All the boys and girls chipped in and helped.
Once the Christmas cards were all done we travelled to the local towns and sold them door-to-door. They sent me and another intermediate boy with a senior and we sold cards at Vanderhoof one weekend. I remember knocking on a fellow’s door that Saturday afternoon. And he was watching television. We each took turns asking people if they would like to buy the Xmas cards. And we had to be ‘polite and courteous’.
The fellow had a color television. And none of us had ever seen a color television before. And we took turns poking our head in his door and watching his color TV while the third boy talked to him.
In 1969 we went to Prince George and sold cards at a table we set up at the Hudson Bay store downtown. Me, Victor West and two other boys took turns sitting at the table selling cards. It was a lot of fun but a lot of work. photo courtesy of 'flickr'.
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