…my father had a maple syrup bush. That’s probably one of my biggest happy memories. Tapping the tree, boiling the water down to maple syrup, and making toffee on the snow. – Sharon Davies

“Most of the fishermen were all from around here, likely. But now there’s not one fisherman from the village of Victoria fishing out of here.” – Vincent Keale

“I remember, when I was little, how beautiful it was around where I lived and how that was just such a big part of my life. And we swam in the river behind our house, every day during the summer.” – Donna Wigmore

“We had two fish plants here one time. We got none now.” – Frankie MacAulay and Jim Campbell, Souris, PEI

“We’d go in April and we’d fish right up ’till Christmas. And then we’d go after Christmas, but we had to watch the ice too during storms and stuff. ” – Fan MacIntyre