Florence Harvey and Frederick Paul on their wedding day on Aug. 8.(Submitted by Frederick Paul)
Frederick Paul and Florence Harvey were just teens when they first fell for each other in the 1950s, but it wasn't until 2020, after a lifetime apart and amid a global pandemic, that the couple once again found each other.
At age 18, Fred had been courting Florence in their small outport community of Wandsworth, on Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula.
But in 1955, his father, who worked in the fishery, asked him to travel to Nova Scotia on his behalf to walk his sister down the aisle at her wedding. From there, Fred went to Toronto to see his brother. When he ran low on cash, Fred landed a job to earn some money, and wound up staying there for a year.