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Ted was visiting with his nephew Garry Haensgen and agreed to let me talk to him about his days in Flin Flon. While Ted Daubert was in university, one of the guys in his class was from Flin Flon and recommended that Ted try to get a job with HBMS upon graduation. Well, the rest as they say is history! Ted came to Flin Flon in 1940 and began his employment working in the research department, for a short while, and then went into the army at Fort Benning, Georgia, until 1942 when as a paratrooper he lost his right eye and was given a medical discharge. Returning to Flin Flon in 1942, he began his work at HBMS as a design engineer. But that wasn't the best part of his return to Flin Flon because working in the main office was a lady known as Marion Jean Cox Ñ better known as Marjorie Ñ and Cupid's arrow had found its mark. The couple were married on May 6, 1943, and rented a suite at 12 Church Street, the property owned by Mrs. Husti, whose husband had been killed sinking the South Main shaft. In 1944 the family bought a house on 4 Danard (neighbours were Leonard Lapointe and Bert Kirkwood), where their daughter Carol was born. The family shortly thereafter bought 395 Princess Boulevard where Carol grew up. (Neighbours were Harry Booth and Ross Hillier). Carol attended Willowvale School (now McIsaac) until grade 7, then she went to Birchview until grade 9 and on to Hapnot until she graduated. Carol took her registered nursing at the Winnipeg General Hospital and later got her degree in nursing and is presently nurse manager at the Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, B.C. While Ted was at HBMS he worked with Cam Spice, Harvey Hamilton, Harvey Booth and Monty Holmes. He worked on surface engineering in the design office. See 'People' P.# Con't from P.# The Daubert family was moved into a Company apartment and had neighbours such as Ted Baumgartner, Einar Crone and Bill Tindall. Part of Ted's job was to do the plant design for all of HBMS' departments, such as the concentrator, tank house, etc., as well as the Mandy mine and Cuprus mine concentrators, and to supervise the design of the Snow Lake concentrator. Ted was transferred and moved to Vancouver where he worked on the Wellgreen project in the Yukon that was built on prima frost. He would come back to Flin Flon on a monthly basis. He worked on the Key Lake Project, and in 1981 he worked on the copper mine at Logan Lake. His wife, Marjorie, died in September of 1998. Ted hadn't been back to Flin Flon for about 15 years and said, "I think it is wonderful how things have improved! Everything is much greener, homes seem to be in better condition and there have been some major improvements, but there are some areas that need fixing, but generally speaking Flin Flon has greatly improved." Ted still lives in North Vancouver but he left a part of himself in Flin Flon. "The people are still the same, friendly and hospitable." Thanks for sharing Ted!
