“You’d go there to look at their windows, and they would have like maybe a train going around and little puppets moving around.” – Lois Karam

“They always have a nighttime parade, starting usually down around the school on Main Street, with Santa at the back.” – Joanne Schmidt

There was a beautiful post office sitting on the corner of Elm and Durham. And every year we looked forward to the Christmas tree that was there. – Linda Carter

Mary-Anne Bjorkman and Cathy Meloche recount their favourite parts of the Christmas Parade and Tree-Lighting in Essex

“Christmas Eve, I’ll never forget. I was probably, I’d say maybe eight. And my mother put my sister and I in what we call the ‘Pink Box Sleigh’ and we drove down to Mike McMillan’s store.” – Marie Kenny