Albert: I got laid off at the Base for a few years. So myself and my brother George went fishing. We fished all that summer and well up into the fall. I never went back fishing. That was the year I started building this house. That winter I went in the Colinet lumbering woods for Alex Foster of Colinet, Paddy Tremblett was foreman. And I went on the log drive on the Colinet River in the spring of the year. I stayed at this for the next couple of years. Next I went back to work on the Base in Argentia at various jobs. I started off in the cookhouse, then went truck driver and ended up in the fire hall. We mostly fought fires in Argentia, but occasionally we'd be sent to Placentia and those areas.

Minnie: We got married on September 10, 1944 in Mt. Carmel Church. Helen Davis (cousin of Minnie's) and Bride Murphy (Albert's sister) as well as Phil Davis (brother of Minnie's) and George McDonald (Albert's brother) stood up for us. Ray Davis (cousin of Minnie's) drove us. After Mass we went to Mr. & Mrs. McDonald's house for the breakfast reception, a real old time tradition. We had the firing of guns as we passed through Mitchell's Brook. It was lovely. Later that day we all went to the dinner reception at mother's and father's house in Colinet. When it was over we all went up to the old school house on the hill and had the dance. We danced all night. Dickie Meaney played the accordion. What a time we all had. There were lamps all around the hall, no electricity in them days.

We had no honeymoon. We lived with my parents for the first two years. We built our own house in 1946-47. We had four children, one daughter (the oldest) and three sons. The middle son, Gerard, died at only ten months from an obstruction of the bowel. The little darling. We had the best doctor and the best hospital at the time. He was operated on and was getting better and was coming home. Friends of ours visited little Gerard that day and when they got home they came and told us how well he was doing. Not half an hour after they left, Father Slattery notified us of his death. We have five grandsons and one granddaughter as well as three great-grandchildren.

Albert: I bought my first brand new pickup in 1954. She was a GMC, deluxe cab with colored glass and everything. I paid $1800.00 on the road for her. After I got laid off at the Base for good, I bought a school bus and started taking children out of North Harbour to Mt. Carmel. I did this for six years. I lost the tender (I bid too high). Then I worked for SAEN (Salmon Association of Eastern Newfoundland) for the next couple of years until I turned 65. They gave me a retirement party and a pocket knife and a pair of binoculars.

Minnie: I kept school teachers for years after we got our own house and family. I charged them $30.00 a month. After years of this I put it up to $35.00 a month.

We will celebrate our 57th wedding anniversary this September. We are in pretty good health and live alone in the same house we built all those years ago. We are enjoying our golden years.