Gregory Eugene (Gene) Kelly was born on January 19th, 1914 in Henderson Settlement, the fifth of seven children of Michael and Martha (Kreutz) Kelly. He started his education at a one room schoolhouse; the family later moved to Norton in 1923 and he began his working life on farms and in the woods. Gene began his career in the transportation industry around 1930, hauling gravel with a team of horses to build and repair roads. During the Depression, with little work and little or no money, the wintertime provided jobs in the woods with horses, hauling logs to wood yards or to the saw mills. In 1934, Gene worked part of the year at a mill preparing slab wood which was loaded onto a truck to be hauled to the rivers for water transportation to Saint John, N.B. for firewood. He remembered the steam paddle wheelers that used to ply our bigger rivers hauling passengers and freight. He worked on a crew loading gravel onto trucks by hand and in 1937 bought a new Ford dump truck thinking that it should be easier to drive one than to load one. In 1936, he also took a seasonal job with the J. Hoffert Co. as a Christmas tree shipper. He organized the buying and hauling of trees to be loaded onto ships and boxcars for export to the U.S.A., he did this for 10 years and used his Ford with a flat bottom to haul from the yards. He also believed he was the first one in eastern Canada to truck Christmas trees to the U.S.A.; hauling to New York in 1948. Again, winter provided work, hauling ice from lakes to icehouses and also logs, pulpwood and lumber. He spent many years working around the province, hauling on the road building jobs and always tried to have as good as