CHAPTER 29 Sometime in 1972 the Department of Labour, said that we had to have a license to work...
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...
Pfc. Vincent Goodwin World War I Veteran
World War I has become the forgotten war. The New Brunswick businessman Vincent Goodwin...
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...
A Message For You: 1947
CHAPTER 18 Vital Thebeau 1947 My brother Camille and I worked in the woods all winter. We had...
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...
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...
Work in the Mill, 1945
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...
Babies and Sleighs
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...
Priests & Bicycles
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...