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.
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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 one. I thought about it. I had a brother-in-law that had a horse he wanted to sell. I asked him how much he wanted for it, he told me he wanted $90.00. It was a nice...
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 job - to keep this forklift going. The operators were very hard on them, they never took a course on how to operate the machine that made my job very hard, and we had...
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 in the mill, they wanted all the mechanics to have their industrial mechanic licenses. The Department of Labour, Bruce Baker told the superintendent, Dave Crosby that I...
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 license to work in the mill, they wanted all the mechanics to have their industrial mechanic licenses. The Department of Labour, Bruce Baker told the superintendent,...
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 time. I started to work with Glen McGuigan that day. I was quite excited about my job. We worked on a conveyor. The chain on the conveyor was broken. My boss's name was Kurt...
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...