“If I didn’t like the job I wouldn’t be here for 51 years.” – Jimmy Poirier, Cheticamp, NS

“Harold Burns was the peanut store. There were two Burns. The other Burns, he had the ice cream parlor.” – Natalie Corkum, Lunenburg, NS

“She has been in the area for such a long time, and everybody just misses her so much. I still have people coming in be like, ‘Have you heard anything about Mrs. Fisher?’” – Stacey Campbell, Dartmouth, NS

“It was a store unlike any other stationery store. She had a very eclectic mix of products in there. You could get anything from baptism cards to ribbons for your typewriter.” – Tim Rissesco, Dartmouth, NS

“One Saturday morning we marched up here en masse, there must have been 40 of us or so in the procession. And then some people joined us at the store, there must have been a hundred people through the store.” – Tim Rissesco, Dartmouth, NS