“Used to be a guy in the… Al Beverley, owned the paint store in the corner. Really old and funky and all different levels and different layers. And absolutely jam packed with every kind of lamp you could imagine…” – Stan W. Tait

“Downtown Bracebridge is just really one street and there’s a sort of a one-block hub where all the retail is.” – Elizabeth Mitchell

“When I was a kid I’d go down to the train station and hang out, sit with people in the, the baggage office or the station master.” – David Robert

“The Santa Claus parade has been going on here since the forties. And I can remember when the Santa Claus parade went down the main street of Bracebridge.” – Gary Denniss

“When I first arrived here, the first winter here in Bracebridge, at the end of January, they called it Fire and Ice. I absolutely loved it. They took all the snow off the main street on the hill and they made a bobsled.” – Christine Peterkin