“…in 1996, my mom wanted to relocate our pottery business and, and move here. We had friends from BC that lived here that owned the island chocolate shop and they invited us and to the village to be part of the community.” – Devin Krauskopf

“The village was a great place as kids, you know, cause there was a lot of us.” – Emma Gilbert, Victoria By The Sea, PEI

“I was 11 or 12 when I first met Erskine, and he was all in his makeup to be Ronald McDonald.” – Marianna Burda, Victoria By The Sea, PEI

“My earliest memory was I just finished doing a show in Charlottetown called Hosanna. And Erskine Smith, the deceased director of the Victoria Playhouse asked me if I’d come out and audition for a role and stage manage for a summer.” – Eugene Sauve

“…we tried to have little roadside sales like this. And in that era, which was the forties, we had these little rubber moles that we would make plaster, little figurines, Eiffel Towers, little animals. And then we’d paint them and sell them.” – Mary Lee Stewart