CHAPTER 34 Summer of 1975 My friend, Jack Moore was keeping a few horses; he told me I should have...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Coal Miners and Bulldozers, Welders and Me.
A Message For You by Vital Thebeau CHAPTER 19 1948 My sister Dora and her husband Alfonse moved to Minto to work in the coal mine. My brother-in-law was working underground, sometimes it was around 50 feet deep and the coal was 30 inches thick in the mine where he...
A Message For You: 1947
CHAPTER 18 Vital Thebeau 1947 My brother Camille and I worked in the woods all winter. We had bought a horse at the end of March; we went to get it in St. Paul on a Saturday morning. It was about 60 miles from home. We had a 1936 Chevrolet car, we had to take the...
A Message for You: Work in the Woods, Cards at Night.
CHAPTER 17 By Vital Thebeau 1946 I remember my brother Eddy was cutting pulp wood it was called poplar. In the summertime it was very hot and there were a lot of mosquitoes. My job was to take the bark off the trees with a tool called a spud. It was very hard for me...
A Message For You: Wagons & Wheelchairs
CHAPTER 16 One day there was a guy that come into the shop and asked dad if he could make him a wheelchair. He said somebody in the family couldn't walk and he wanted to know if dad would be able to make him one. He explained to dad how he wanted it done; dad agreed...
A Message For You
By Vital Thebeau CHAPTER 15 My mother and father were very smart; they didn't have a lot of education. They could write English or French (not a whole lot). They could do whatever they needed because they had to order their materials they needed for the shop and the...