The lake, that’s where they do all the festivals and stuff like that. It’s a physical lake that they made many, many, many before my lifetime. – Pamela Critchlow

The biggest thing was the Shawville Fair. It was the largest one in the Pontiac region. – Sharon Davies

…my father had a maple syrup bush. That’s probably one of my biggest happy memories. Tapping the tree, boiling the water down to maple syrup, and making toffee on the snow. – Sharon Davies

I remember one little story. We have a family of eight children, my wife and I. And two or three of them were old enough that they could go up to the store. – Jim Harris

Somebody who really was important and everybody knew him. We had, like, a corner when you’re going down to the village. We used to call it the main area of the village. So when you’re driving down to the village, there was a policeman directing traffic. – Joanne Dero