“He was very frail, and it was amazing how much he could carry, all the way to the bottle depot.” – Kyle Thomas, Yellowknife, NWT

“We’d get the pieces of wood from our fathers, or whatever it was we needed. But we always needed wheels. But the only place you could get wheels was this junkyard.” – Cassandra Chisholm, Mimico, ON

“Bernard was furious and he ran back to his store, he actually phoned the police.” – Gordon O’Brien, St. John’s, NL

“Without question everybody who leaves, if you ask them what is sort of their fondest memory,  they will normally say something about downtown Oakville.” – Anthony John Brooks, Oakville, ON

“What happens is you start to measure other villages and downtowns against where you grew up.” – Natalie Jenner, Oakville, ON