Mary, who was born in 1917, also earned a teacher’s certificate after attending Prince of Wales College, and taught in Maple Plains for two years. After World War II began, she went to Ottawa to work with the federal public service. She met and married O’Leary Curley who also served with the Canadian military in World War 11.

Gerald, born in 1918, also joined the army at the outbreak of war. He was trained as an electrician, and his duties included restoring transmission lines destroyed during battles. After marrying in 1946, he and his wife moved to Montreal where he worked for a time as a painter on the Jacques Cartier Bridge. He returned to Kinkora in 1947 and became a life—long farmer.

Born in 1922, Elmer left home at age 18 to work with the Canadian National Railway like his brother Earl. And like his four other brothers, he joined the army and served in Europe until the war ended. He resumed his career with CN and worked the Halifax to Montreal run, where he met his future wife. They settled in Halifax.

[fathleen’s brother Lennie, working on the family farm with the two Keq‘e horses (circa 1947)

Lennie, who was born in 1923, stayed on the family farm and eventually took it over after the death of his father. He and his wife had nine children, and the Keefe home once again reverberated to the sounds

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