Six or seven years of lobbying and trying to get the provincial and federal government to help put a dike in. And we finally got that. – Rene Maillard

Saffie Road is originally named after the owner of the local store. And Saffie Road was built up as a dike from the lake because the lake did come over many, many years ago. – Larry Hamilton

“People that hadn’t been here would never realize what had been there.” – Aubrey Atkinson

“I came here in 1962 and it was always called Uptown St. John. I lived in a lot of cities and this is the first I ever heard of that.” – Cyril Smith

“Back in the late 1950s, JC Vanhorn was a member of the legislative assembly in Fredericton. And he saw the real need for better communication transportation wise between the two provinces.” – Donna Whitty