“If you were duty on the ship, you always volunteered to be the driver so you’d go to Mama Camille’s and pick up the fish and chips and chowder ’cause you always got a free one.” – George Degraze, Dartmouth, NS

“Harold Burns was the peanut store. There were two Burns. The other Burns, he had the ice cream parlor.” – Natalie Corkum, Lunenburg, NS

“I could not imagine living anywhere else. I don’t know how anybody could live anywhere else!” – Judy Gillis, Sydney, NS

“There was two little ladies there and if you were polite they would give you a candy. If you had dirty hands, they would not let you even go near the store.” – Tootsie Emin, Yarmouth, NS