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Description
Mr. Gerrard describes leaving North Point camp at daylight to go to work and not returning until after dark. He recalls having a day off and discovering for the first time that his bedding is infested with bed bugs.
Transcription
You had to be lined up on the parade square at daylight and we would go and get on a tug boat. It was a big tug boat and they would march us onto it and it would take us up to the airport where we worked on the airport. Then at night when they brought us back it would be dark by the time we got back. So we used to walk into, there was no lighting in the building and you used to go in there and it was pretty well feel your way around, you never saw the place in daylight, you didn’t even know what it looked like. And I remember after I’d been working for a while we had a day, a day off I guess, in daylight and I looked at where I’d been sleeping and I had like a piece of white canvas, I guess it was, and I couldn’t figure out all these black streaks in it and somebody told me it was bed bugs and I didn’t even know they were there. I just come in at night and just flop and go to sleep and then wake up in the morning and you’re gone again, you know.