Wilson Hayward

A lot of people didn't believe in ghosts, but we did have ghosts here in Bonavista years ago.

They used to see people out around their homes, years ago, after they died. I always had a reason for that. If a man took sick, and he couldn't work, his family would go hungry. So perhaps, if he had three little children, he wouldn't be getting anything from the government. But for the crowd that lived around him, the man's family would fall on hard times.

So, if this man had tuberculosis or something like that, he got worse and worse and worse. Finally he would die.

But that man knew that after he died his children were going to be left alone in the world, with only their mother, with nobody else to provide for them.

I always used to say there was no way in the world that man could go to bed, lie down, and die with a contented mind, with three little small youngsters, knowing that they were going to be hungry.