I didn’t have any technology except my practical way of doing things. So I told them by pulling on the spring. If it is hard to pull it means that it would hit harder and that’s how I do it.
Chapter 34 Vital and Danny Thebeau
CHAPTER 34 Summer of 1975 My friend, Jack Moore was keeping a few horses; he told me I should have...
A Message For You Ch. 30 – Feel Good About Your Job! – Vital Thebeau
CHAPTER 30 The job that I enjoyed was working alone on the forklift - most of the time that was my...
A Message For You- Ch. 29 – Getting an Education!
CHAPTER 29 Sometime in 1972 the Department of Labour, said that we had to have a license to work...
Showing What I Can Do – Getting an Education
A Message For You CHAPTER 29 Sometime in 1972 the Department of Labour, said that we had to have a...
A Cross For The Church – Vital Thebeau – A Message For You
CHAPTER 28 1970 16th of June I got up at five o'clock in the morning so I could get to work on...
A New Job, A New Town – Vital Thebeau – A Message For You
CHAPTER 27 1969 I was thinking about finding another job somewhere else. I was working for NB coal LTD and I didn't like to work there. I started to look for another place to work. I went to see the department of labour and I told them that I would like to come to...
Moose & Lightbulbs, Small Business in Action
A Message For You Vital Thebeau Ch. 25 - 1960 In the fall, we had to send and application to natural resources so our name could be put in for a moose draw. For the first time in many years someone would be lucky enough to have his name drawn. I said to my wife I am...
A Message For You – New House $600, New Baby – Vital Thebeau Ch.22
Before we were married, Rita had a baby girl, her name was Loretta, and she was born on November 17, 1954. In those days, we had to adopt the baby after we were married. In 1956 I bought a house in North Minto. It was not a very nice house but it was our own. I paid...
A Message For You – A Marriage and Mishap – Vital Thebeau Chapter 21
One day my sister Rose and I was driving downtown Minto, I seen these beautiful girls, I said to my sister I was going to go out with this girl before the winter is over. Shortly after that, I got to meet that nice looking girl, her name was Rita Hachey. She was...
A Message For You, Working the 8 Yard Shovel, Vital Thebeau Chapter 20
I went to see Broderick Brothers for a job; he hired me as a bulldozer operator. I was working the night shift, 12 hours a night, seven day a weeks; I was getting the same wage as the previous job. I worked for them until 1950. One day they asked me if I would like to...