Things were moving along well for us. Floy had relatives in Raymond and so did I. My Dad, John Walters Hyde still had his blacksmith shop in Raymond, and we saw the Hyde family often. By this time, my siblings were married. Mary married Martin Kendall and had four children. Ella married Henry Simmons and raised a family of nine. After the death of her first husband, she married Leslie Ballard. My next sister, Harriet Adelaide, married William Greep and raised a family of five, two of whom were stepsons. James was the next child. They had one son. My next brother, John Walters married Doreen Bishop. She was from England and a war bride. John married her in England and brought her home after he served in the Canadian Army during World War II. They had five children.
We were getting along pretty well, and we bought a car. It was just at the end of World War II, and new cars were just about impossible to obtain, so it was a used car. There were only two new cars in town, and you had to be a doctor or someone more important to get one.
In 1942, I became a full-time employee with Canadian Sugar, and by 1945, we had our own little home and had it paid for. We had no other debts. When we decided to build our own home, we had truly little cash to do so. I went to the Mercantile Store to see the owner for credit. After asking several question, he said, “Well, Clarence, your Dad’s credit is good here for anything he wants and any amount of it, but that doesn’t make your credit any good at all. If you want credit here, you will have to earn it yourself.”
So, he gave me the credit and we built the house and after that it was my responsibility to keep the Hyde credit good. We borrowed money and bought materials to build part of the house, paid it back, then would do another part and pay that off. We did that until we had a nice home. We lived there, enjoying our home and our little family until 1945.
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