“Well, it was exciting. As you know, a lot of people were for it, but there were a lot of people against it as well.” – Kay McDermott

“My father’s family had their business on High Street just behind where the co-op store used to be. And that was back in the horse and buggy days, when you delivered coal all over town using a horse and wagon.” – Terry Goodyear

“It was a very small, small town, but it was an English type town because an English company had a paper mill here. And my father was one of the first that came in and got hired at sixteen years old.” – Art Griffin

“The Royal Stores, of course, they were a branch of the St. John’s Royal Stores and I finished school in St. John’s, so the continuity between that was there.” – Jim Dobson

“In the main street at Windsor, you wouldn’t go down there unless you had a buddy with you or a couple. And the same thing, you wouldn’t walk in Grand Falls unless you had a few guys that you knew could back you up.” – Ray Power