Before we were married, Rita had a baby girl, her name was Loretta, and she was born on November...
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...
A Message For You
By Vital Thebeau CHAPTER 15 My mother and father were very smart; they didn't have a lot of...
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...
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...
Priests & Bicycles
Chapter 11 - 1940 When I turned 11 years old, I joined the Monks of" Trappist"; I thought it would...
A Message For You: Chapter 9
My dad was a blacksmith and he was working in a small shop, he was working on a mowing machine for a team of horses, the machine was fairly heavy and you would have to sit on the machine. The wheels were made with cast iron steel with cork on them; the cork was to...
A Message For You: Chapter 6
My father and mother were raising their own pigs. Every year they had too many for ourselves, so they would sell whatever they didn't need. They had two or three litters of piglets, when they reached the age of 6 or 7 weeks old they would sell the rest of them for...
A Message For You: Chapter 3
My brother René and I used to play together with all sorts of things; we didn't have too many toys like kids have today. I remember that I had a broken door handle and I don't quite remember what my brother had. We made a bet with each other that we would sleep in the...
Vital Thebeau – Please, Let me Introduce Myself!
Introduction January 1993 I had to have an operation for my prostate, the Dr. told me to stay off work for six weeks. When I came back from the hospital, I was listening to the TV. I was watching “Oprah", she was telling the people how a millionaire lived, she was...
Vital Thebeau – “A Message for You”
Saturday we begin a weekly feature, serializing an account of an extraordinary Canadian life. Vital Thebeau is the author, 85 years old, from Nackawic New Brunswick, and he has a great story to tell. Vital left school after completing Grade 4, as a result, literacy...