This is a photo of my father, James Gardner. He worked on the Red Indian Lake in Millertown as an engineer on the lake boat. When Lord Northcliff started to build the paper mill in Grand Falls, he was asked if he would come to Grand Falls to work for the company in the generator room. He left Millertown in October, 1905 with his wife Catherine and two small children to start a new life in the paper town. His wife, who was expecting her third child, went to Norris Arm by train where her baby girl was born coming home by train in November. At that time there was no doctor in Grand Falls. My father lived with his parents for the winter until a home could be built for him and his family. His father was hired to build homes for the employees and when they were finished, my parents moved in for a few years, living in a bungalow that got too small for the family, which was getting larger. They moved to a bigger home on High Street. Later, my father built his own home in Windsor, where his father also had a home. It was called Grand Falls Station then. While waiting to work in the mill, my father wrote an ICS course, which he came first in. Lord Northcliff gave him a gold watch for passing the course. He also had the privilege of turning on the town lights for the first time. He left Grand Falls in 1921 to go to Vancouver to work because there was a strike at the paper mill. He had the children by that time and no money. He had to move where work was available. His brothers all moved to the mainland with us. He sold his home in Windsor and Grand Falls Station and stayed seven months in Vancouver. He did not like the rain and dampness, so he moved back to Grand Falls, where he lived until he died in his own home in Botwood which he had built himself in 1929. My father had a family of twelve children. Only one stayed in Grand Falls with her husband, looking after her parents and living with them. My parents are buried in the cemetery on Union Street, along with a couple of their sons. My father liked to read, and when he was not in his workshop doing something, that was his hobby. This photo is in the Turbine Room of the Grand Falls Mill. Father is standing in front of the switch board. Theresa Goodyear (nee Gardner)   Submitted By: NULL