Avant sa retraite, M. Auffrey avait travaillé pour 39 ans avec le département du transport de la Province du N.-B.

As a youth he worked in lumber camps, dockyards and also on scows transporting gravel and timber on the Petitcodiac River.

He was later employed by the New Brunswick Department of Transportation where he retired with 39 years of service.

Laurie loved listening to jigs and reels as well as old country music typified by such singers as Wilf Carter and Hank Snow.

He was an avid outdoorsman who loved hunting, driving his ATV on trails and was most passionate about fishing shad, salmon, bass and sturgeon on his beloved Petitcodiac River.