“I’m willing to say there was more immigrants on main street than any other street in Canada. So way back when the paper mill controlled the town, these people weren’t allowed to set up in Grand Falls unless they were invited.” – Corey Sharpe

“Oh there was a number of sounds. But the one that stood out on the warm summer nights was what the stackers, which were the like rectangle type of machine that took the logs up and dumped them in piles for storage for the wintertime.” – Andy Barker

“And everybody who was staying in town were invited to come and call family, anywhere in the world to let them know they were safe.” – Sandra Kelly

“We had one traffic light and our shopping center, if you can call it that, was basically a horseshoe-shaped series of buildings intersected by Elizabeth Drive, which by the way, if you look at the map and turn it upside down, it’s shaped like the head of a Gander.” – Dave Shaw

“The hard cold was for winter burning. And the soft coal was for putting in your stove for cooking up your meals in a hurry.” – Robert Gordon Grant