By Land and By Air 
     
    
   
   
    
     I started back to work, but was treated much better by the 
     
     foreman and boss. As a time-keeper I never had an easier 
     
     job, checking the men in the morning and afternoon. I went 
     
     out to the gangs in the morning but I sat with door open 
     
     and checked the men off in the afternoon, to the foreman’s 
     
     disgust. I told him it was up to him to see they got to work. 
     
     He had no education, and I had to make up his books for 
     
     him. He used to get workers back from work late, and I 
     
     put a stop to that by paying them overtime, which soon 
     
     got them back in time. 
     
    

    
     All the workers approved of my courage as I lived 
     
     in half a boxcar all to myself. When I made up the books, I 
     
     could wander over to the cook-house. The cook was from 
     
     New Brunswick, and he was always asking me to try his 
     
     cooking. As a result, my weight went from13O lbs., which 
     
     I kept for years, to 158 lbs., of which I have not lost any in 
     
     the last 50 years. 
     
    

    
     I felt the train moving one night, to awake in the 
     
     Rocky Mountains. I and three Italians used to explore 
     
     the mountains - they were all enemy soldiers in World 
     
     War II. The week before I was to return to Dalhousie, the 
     
     railway went on strike. I went to Vancouver and took a bus 
     
     for Toronto and when I got there, the train was running. 
     
     Although the head of Frontier College was in no way 
     
     pleased in me not waiting for the train, he paid part of my 
     
     bus fare. 
     
    

    
     I think I learned something in my experience of 
     
     studying my fellow men, and trying to live, and feed a 
     
     family by working at 50 cents an hour. I was glad to return 
     
     to Dalhousie at $112.00 a month and had to pay rent out of 
     
     this. On return we were given three rooms (in our first year 
     
     at Mulgrave Park, we had two rooms) which seemed to be 
     
     a great uplift. We were getting into the ”nuts and bolts” of 
     
     medicine in the 3rd year but after 50 years, I cannot recall 
     
    
   
   
    
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