I worked in a store, but I was a dress maker. I sew all the time. – Mary Abraham recalls her time doing alterations for Abraham’s Men’s Wear and Ladies’ Wear, up to now making covers for the art at the Temiskaming Art Gallery.

It is one of the most handsome buildings in the town of Collingwood and has been restored and preserved to its original character. – Ed Christie

“Downtown Bracebridge is just really one street and there’s a sort of a one-block hub where all the retail is.” – Elizabeth Mitchell

We used to put your foot in and we would look and see the bones in our feet at the store. I still remember that. – Joan Clermont

Darren Taylor tells one of the many memories he has of his grandfather, Eli, in their shop.