“I saw an opportunity to do something with this town that could really help to revitalize, resurrect it.” – Gabriel Safdie, Stanstead, QC

“I had a friend who came up here and he described any afternoon in Yellowknife as the same as Friday night in St. Paul, Alberta.” – Gordon Van Tighen, Yellowknife, NWT

“We’d be hanging out, chewing sunflower seeds. You’d walk by, we’d go crunch crunch crunch.” – Barry Sharpe, Yorkton, SK

“There was a fire upstairs in the top of the theatre and one of the girls, young woman, that was performing, lost her life. They say you can still see a light burning.” – Lynda Chessman, Lindsay, ON

“We’d go down and hang around the dummy, you know, there wasn’t much to do in a small town.” – Madeline Macdonald, Grand Falls – Windsor, NL