home [teaching] for a year. We were to take turns. They had about run out of money. Well, I went back two years later and got my second year [at Prince of Wales College]. So the next year I taught, on account of having a higher licence to teach, I had doubled my salary. But even then, it was less than a thousand dollars.... [Then], I taught in Pinette . That's when I went down to Pinette . And that's where I met my husband. One Big Family His name was Herbert - John Herbert - and they called him Herbie. He was quite a bit older than I. He was one of the neighbours. I boarded with some friends... and he was one of the local boys. In those days, when you got married you were supposed to start having children. That was the thing. This was very, very important in this family because the other members of the family, the older members - Grandma Gillis - she wanted a grandson to name for her husband who had died. So I was just the incubator. I guess I would have been in the same category with Anne Boleyn . I was afraid for my head, so I had a baby within a year. I had my first child - who [became] Dr. John ' - and four years later I had my second boy. And then, four years later I had a daughter. And that was our family. They were born in Pinette , on the farm. And brought up very much the same as I was brought up. My children were all born at home. And we didn't have prenatal care. Now, this seems pretty primitive, but that's the way it was. We were the last house in . The next farm was Flat River . But, it was on the Flat River Road and we were Flat River people. It was on the road to Wood Islands . At the time I went to Pinette, we were all one big family. You know, if anybody needed you or anyone was sick, everybody contributed some¬ thing. They'd come and give you a day's work or they'd come and help you... . Everyone came to your threshing mill and you returned the compliment by going to their threshing mill. It was a community thing and it usually revolved around the close neighbours, the neighbours who worked together. The social life in Pinette seemed to be homemade and, very often, the neighbours and sometimes the young people would gather at different 1. Dr. John Gillis , Annie's son, served as the community doctor from 1959 to his death in 1977. Annie Gillis 159