Jacques Fontaine was me home. Years after, I was here in Grand Bank and went working at fish down on the beach. I was married and had children then. The whole 14 years I was on the beach I was a piler. Everybody couldn't make the piles, but I was used to the fish before I come to Grand Banknot on the beaches, but on the flakes. You had to go on the beach to earn a few dollars - do the best you could to make ends meet. I wouldn't like to ever see it come back again. That was in the depression years, and we knowed it was a depression too. Some hard going days them times, but I conquered the big battle to be alive like I am today, 98 years old, and got me right senses. I got a lot to be thankful for. The dear Lord was good to us, we hold our health.

My husband was a skipper. We was married a month and a half when he went away, and I never see him no more for 11 months. When the schooner was going, he had to be gone. The first five years we was married, I hardly see him much at all. One time the doctor come over because one of the children was sick. He asked where me husband was to, and I told him. He said, "You're the mother and father of a family, your man away like that."