I got all misty-eyed and nostalgic reading your post.Just try it, you'll get it. Just like BB said...get an album cover that opens like a double album and sit it on your lap or a table and incline the half that is away from you, put the weed on that inclined part and use a card to pick up some and pour it back onto the cover. The seeds will roll down to the crease. Practice makes perfect! Works great...I still do it that way.
In the old days I would always let a little weed roll down too and I kept all of my seeds in a container of some sort and when times were tuff I could sift back thru my seeds and find some herb to smoke. In really tuff times I would clean my pipes and smoke the resin. We even sifted bong water with paper towels, let it dry out and shake/scrape the stuff off of the paper towel and have something to smoke. Didn’t taste too good, but got the job done! FYI…the bong was a one hit bowl, so some un burned weed always ended up in the water…
There I go chasing rabbit trails again…getting totally off subject…lmao
Ontario...I'm with ya bro...HA! Film cannisters rocked. For the younger folk, film cannisters are the little plastic cannisters that 35mm camera film comes in.