 He then moved with her to Toronto in 1937 where he worked as a Linotype operator at Eveready Printing, the Communist Party of Canada's printshop, for several years.In 1943, he became a meteorology officer for the weather service of the federal government and was attached to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan for the remainder of World War II.He would retain his position with the Dominion Weather Service for 25 years.