Mary, better known as Minnie, was born in Colinet, and her husband, Albert, was born in Mt. Carmel. They built a house and settled in Colinet. 57 years later they are healthy and happy and enjoying their golden years.

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Minnie: I came from a family of eight, I being the oldest. One sister, Loretta, died of convulsions only a couple of months old. My sister Madeline, died at fourteen from leukemia. I had five brothers. There's only myself and two brothers now living.

Albert: I had two brothers and two sisters. Only one sister and myself still living. One sister died of appendicitis at around fourteen and I had a brother who died much younger. I'm the youngest boy.

Minnie: As a young girl I worked as a clerk at Hughie Simmons' store in Colinet (he married Angela Davis of Colinet). This was a food and dry goods store. They had a little bit of everything there. When I started I was getting 9¢ an hour and when I was finished a few years later I was getting 13¢ an hour. I worked there until I got married in 1944.

Albert: I went to work, cutting pit props(1) at fourteen years of age with Jack Hender as foreman. We were putting the road through Deer Park. You'd get a dollar a day for rinding them. I left home when I was sixteen and went to work as a logger in Corner Brook. I came out of there and went to Argentia in 1941 as a truck driver with the Transportation Department (American) putting the road through to Colinet. I was getting 50¢ an hour then.

Minnie: I was working at Hughie Simmons' store and I always knew Albert's truck when it would pass, as it had '44 on her.