I remember in the wintertime going there. If school was canceled because of a snowstorm, we’d make money shoveling out people’s driveways and get just enough to go to a movie theater. – Ken Smith

It was a mercantile store and it was everything you wanted in there. That was nice when you’re downtown. Everybody was decorated and there you met everybody. – Roger Aube

My uncle came to Canada in 1970… And when my uncle came, he was working with the first person who came to Bathurst from China. – Christine Chattier

When I was growing up, that was where a lot of the miners and people that worked in the pulp paper industry cashed their checks. – Pat Roach

One of the things that we used to do is go to see this fortuneteller who lived quite a ways out of town. It was about a half hour from town. So it was a big deal. – Diane Gauthier