We only got as far as Gander Lake and he had a hole in his pontoon. I sat by the side of the lake while he walked into Gander. Then he came back and fixed it up and we went off again and got to Roddickton. We stayed the night there, my first real taste of a Newfoundland outport. The dogs howled outside the window, that night I remember, I had no idea what the noise was. I supposed they were dogs, but they could have been wolves for all I knew. No one ever told you anything.

We got to St. Anthony eventually. Trouble was, we were on floats and the harbour was ice-bound. Where was he going to land? There wasn't any water.

He landed in the Bight. The big harbour was full of floating ice, but there was the Bight next to it with just enough open water there to bring the plane down, very skilfully.

You were never treated as if you were a newcomer. The Grenfell Mission took for granted that you were trained to be sensible. You were an adult. You arrived, you put on your uniform, and you worked.

The organization realized that you were a highly trained professional person. They expected a great deal from you. That's what you gave.

Well, you see, I had nursed right through the war and we had a great deal of responsibility. So, I was very experienced, because nursing through the air raids in North London, you really had a very good training. At. St. Anthony you had a great deal of responsibility too. There were only four nurses and over a hundred beds. There were no war wounds of course, no air raid casualties, but it was very busy. And a great deal of TB of course, in those days. Dr. Curtis was in charge, and Dr. Thomas worked with him. They operated every day, a great deal of surgery.

I was in the hospital there for six months and then I went home again to England. They had asked me to come back to the coast and I said I would but I needed to do some extra midwifery. I knew if I came back I'd be alone and I had to be really experienced in midwifery then. So I did an extra year's midwifery in England.

When I came back, they sent me to Northwest River.