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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A Message for You Vital Thebeau Chapter 14 A friend of mine asked me if I would like to work in the saw mill for a few months, so I asked mom and dad if it would be ok to go. It was between Fredericton and Woodstock. They thought that would be ok. We left one Saturday...
"A Message For You" - Chapter 13 - by Vital Thebeau. 1944 That winter we didn't have any school, because there was no teacher. My brother Camille and I thought we should start cutting pulp. Camille was 12 years and I was 15 years old so we cut pulp through the winter....
CHAPTER 12 1943 That winter we had a lot of snow! If you had to talk to someone you would have to walk over to their house because there was no telephone. A neighbour of ours, her name was Alma Robichaud, was having a baby and she was having problems, my mother was a...
Chapter 11 - 1940 When I turned 11 years old, I joined the Monks of" Trappist"; I thought it would be a good thing to join. I thought perhaps I could become a priest. One of my cousins was a priest. His name was Louis Daigle and that was what I thought I could do. But...
Recipe for making poutine rape: it’s a recipe that was brought down from the early settlers, it’s made with potatoes and pork meat that is be cut fairly small 3/8 to 1/2 inch square. The amount of potatoes is roughly 12 big potatoes. We would peel them, and then grate...